Ballad of Favour

DICKENS, Monica

Overton, Glynis

Literature & Fiction

HarperCollins, Publishers

Cry of a seagull

Collins

The Messenger (Armada)

Cry of a Seagull (The Messenger Series)

Monica Dickens's first book, published in 1940, could easily have been called Mariana - an Englishwoman. For that is what it is: the story of a young English girl's growth towards maturity in the 1930s. We see Mary at school in Kensington and on holiday in Somerset; her attempt at drama school; her year in Paris learning dressmaking and getting engaged to the wrong man; her time as a secretary and companion; and her romance with Sam. We chose this book because we wanted to publish a novel like Dusty Answer, I Capture the Castle or The Pursuit of Love, about a girl encountering life and love, which is also funny, readable and perceptive; it is a 'hot-water bottle' novel, one to curl up with on the sofa on a wet Sunday afternoon. But it is more than this. As Harriet Lane remarks in her Preface: 'It is Mariana's artlessness, its enthusiasm, its attention to tiny, telling domestic detail that makes it so appealing to modern readers.'

MARIANA

Contemporary

Penguin

Joy and Josephine: (Penguin Book No. 1168)

Joy and Josephine

Penguin??Books

The Happy Prisoner

Penguin Books, Ltd.

The third of Monica Dickens'' autobiographica l books describes her time as cub reporter on the Downingham Post, a long established small-town paper with a steady cir culation and not much sympathy with the innovations of its j unior reporter. '

My turn to make the tea

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Flowers on the Grass

After the sudden death of his wife, Daniel abandons home and security, setting off to find the freedom he knew as a boy. This novel follows his wanderings from a seaside boarding house to a hospital bed, introducing the strange characters he meets and recording his even stranger adventures.

Flowers On the Grass

The Heart of London

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