Enter Sir Robert Author:Angela Thrikell She writes novels as smooth as the surface of a lake on a breathless August afternoon, as deceptively easy to read as going to sleep on the sofa, as full of innocent fun as a litter of puppies. You read her, relaxed and smiling, from the first word to the last.(Florence Haxton Bullock, in the Chicago Sun) — In Enter Sir Robert, Mrs. Thirkell's na... more »rrative revolves about the attractive figure of Lady Graham, Wife of Sir Robert, daughter of the late Lady Emily Leslie, and herself the mother of three daughters and three sons. "Things" will be settled when Sir Robert comes down from London; how and when he does arrive is the entire story. Never has the chronicler of modern Barsetshire been at once so dazzlingly inconsequential and -- shall we say? -- so exactly and aptly herself.« less