Consider the Lilies by Elizabeth Cadell

Consider the Lilies by Elizabeth Cadell pubished 1955 This author has come up in the comments a few times – she wrote so many books that I may have read one in the past but I don’t remember. I decided to go with this one because it is a murder story of sorts – though it is also a comfortable village story with a romance, of the kind by much-loved authors such as DE Stevenson and O Douglas. The lilies in question are for decorating the church – a subject of much interest round here last Christmas Decorating the Church for Christmas, again This time it is for Easter so a pity I didn’t time my reading of the book better. An unmarried young woman, Caroline, comes to stay with her very-much-married sister in the village: she is taking time off from her Universal Aunts type job. (There was a similar example in this Margery Sharp book – I said there, the kind of job you could imagine Diana Spencer doing before she became Princess of Wales.) The family is very much involved in village life in…