The Second Honeymoon - Couverture souple

Ayres, Ruby M.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1517676835 ISBN 13 : 9781517676834

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

James Challoner, known to his friends and intimates as Jimmy, brushed an imaginary speck of dust from the shoulder of his dinner jacket, and momentarily stopped his cheery whistling to stare at himself in the glass with critical eyes. Jimmy was feeling very pleased with himself in particular and the world in general. He was young, and quite passably good-looking, he had backed a couple of winners that day for a nice little sum, and he was engaged to a woman with whom he had been desperately in love for at least three months.

A propos du livre

About the Author

Ayres was born in Watford on 28 January 1881, the third daughter of London-based architect Charles Pryor Ayres and his wife Alice (née Whitford). In 1909 she married insurance broker Reginald William Pocock. She died on 14 November 1955 at home in Weybridge, Surrey, aged 74, of a combination of pneumonia and a cerebral thrombosis. She was cremated four days later at Golders Green in north London. Ayres stated that she had started to write as a girl, and said that she had been expelled at the age of 15 for the offence of writing what she described as "an advanced love story", although there is no corroboration for her claim. Her first story was published in a magazine shortly after her marriage in 1909, and in 1912 she published her first novel, Castles in Spain. In 1916 she moved publishing houses to Hodder and Stoughton, where she remained until her death in 1955. She wrote over 135 novels over her career, mostly for Hodder and Stoughton, as well as a number of serialised works. She has been referred to as an "over-productive romance writer" and possibly an inspiration for the P. G. Wodehouse character Rosie M. Banks. Several of her works became films and she did screenwriting for Society for Sale among others. She also corresponded with Douglas Sladen.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1517676835
• ISBN 13: 9781517676834
• Reliure: Paperback
• Nombre de pages: 116
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible