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Wild Strawberries, by Angela Thirkell. Barsetshire #2. It's fluff. In the 1930s, a young woman comes to stay at the country house of wealthy relatives, the Leslie family. She immediately develops a crush on the very charming David, the youngest son of the family, who treats her in ways she interprets as showing great interest, but he treats other women that way too. His older brother, John, is a widower; their sister, Agnes, is a total airhead whom everyone finds delightful, and in fact, she is. Then we have a parade of "characters" - Lady Emily, the family matriarch who gently bosses everyone around excessively, while losing track of every physical object she values; Mr Holt, the obnoxious guest who wants everyone to bow to his superior horticultural knowledge; the French family whose teens share an unusual hobby. It's really fun, except URGH on page 89 John uses the n-word! He's being affectionate toward his brother, who loves jazz, calypso, and other Black-inspired music, but I can hardly express how much it bothered me that John - lovely John!!! - would do such a thing. I'm going to get some correcting tape and cover it up. Otherwise, the book doesn't share the casual, occasional racism of the first book in the series.