At Mrs. Lippincote's by Elizabeth Taylor

Set in England during WWII, Julia and Roddy Davenant leave London and are relocated, along with their son and Roddy's sister, Eleanor, to a small town near the military base where he is posted. The novel describes each of their reactions to this new situation, focusing especially on Julia. She has a hard time settling in here, as I think she would anywhere, because she is too truthful to be very polite and "too busy, as a rule, measuring up and deploring other people to be in any way conscious of herself". This disruption of their lives destroys the fragile detente between Julia and Eleanor, and exposes the weaknesses of the marriage. I found it very difficult to care much about any of them although the ending gives much insight into Julia's state of mind. The book does give a good description of the disruption of war on home, friends and family.