Second Fiddle - Couverture rigide

Wesley, Mary

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0670826936 ISBN 13 : 9780670826933

Editeur : Viking, 1989

Synopsis

Physical description; 237 p. Notes; Eight hundred copies of this book were printed and bound at Christmas 1989 for Black Swan, an imprint of Transworld Publishers Ltd. Subjects; Fiction in English - 1945- - Texts. Genre; Fiction.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Mary Wesley was born near Windsor in 1912. Her education took her to the London School of Economics and during the War she worked in the War Office. Although she initially fulfilled her parent's expectations in marrying an aristocrat she then scandalised them when she divorced him in 1945 and moved in with the great love of her life, Eric Siepmann. The couple married in 1952, once his wife had finally been persuaded to divorce him. She used to comment that her 'chief claim to fame is arrested development, getting my first novel [Jumping the Queue] published at the age of seventy'. She went on to write a further nine novels, three of which were adapted for television, including the best-selling The Camomile Lawn. Mary Wesley was awarded the CBE in the 1995 New Year's honour list and died in 2002.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Laura Thornby is independent, individual and perfectly in control of her life. Her affairs are brief but delightful, her career fulfilling and she copes with her two rather peculiar relatives and the gossip about her parentage with wryness and humour.

But then she meets twenty-three-year old Claude, a struggling writer, and she is overcome by an irresistible desire to interfere, manipulate and experiment - all for his own good, of course.

What Laura does not foresee, however, are the possibilities that one day Claude may actually complete his novel and that she may well fall in love.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Viking
• Date d'édition: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0670826936
• ISBN 13: 9780670826933
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 192