A Touch of Mistletoe- Barbara Comyns

Published in 1967, this is a masterful, forgotten coming-of-age tale.

The tale of two sisters, born in affluent rural seclusion and, upon the death of their grandfather, unceremoniously dumped into poignant and often hilarious attempts to make their way in the world. Cue bohemians husbands, bull terriers and a rigid society that the girls are unable to naivgate