Miss Mole

“Young is a sharp and funny writer with a brilliant eye for moral fudging and verbal hypocrisy and she has a splendid foil in Miss Mole.” –Sally Beauman, New York Times–bestselling author of Destiny

As she approaches her fortieth birthday, Miss Hannah Mole returns to Radstowe, the city where she grew up, to take yet another in a string of household jobs she’s held over the years to earn her way as an unmarried woman. Employed as a housekeeper to a pompous pastor whose daughters need a mother figure, Miss Mole turns her ho-hum position into a laughter-filled adventure, winning the affection of sisters Ethel and Ruth and turning the otherwise staid household somewhat upside down. But there is a danger in lingering too long in her hometown. For a secret from the eccentric Miss Mole’s past threatens to upend everything.

Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction when it was first published in 1930, Miss Mole is the humorous, subversive story of a woman who cannot be contained by society’s rules.