This is my first Sylvia Townsend Warner book. The library has Lolly Willowes and Mr. Fortune (looking at Warner's Wikipedia page, I think that must be the American title of Mr. Fortune's Maggot), so I might continue my explorations there.

Poor Phineas! He refuses to let himself complain, but you can feel just feel his heart crying out.

I've been looking thoughtfully at the new adaptation of All Creatures Great and Small, but the 1970s adaptation is so faithful, I don't know how the new one could live up to it!