Book Gazing: The Post Office Girl - Stefan Zweig

Christine is in her mid twenties, works as a post official and lives with her desperately sick mother in severely straightened circumstances, in Austria, during the years just after the first world war. ... She arrives at the Swiss hotel her aunt and uncle are holidaying in, a poor, shabby girl, ashamed of her clothes and frightened of desk clerks. Her aunt quickly transforms her into a presentable young woman and her new appearance unleashes a natural exuberance that ...