Dorothy Evelyn Smith

Broschiertes Buch

Miss Plum and Miss Penny

Beschreibung

"I do not anticipate for one moment that Miss Plum has been murdered, though I should have some slight sympathy with her assassin if she had." Miss Penny is a middle-aged spinster living a cheerful, contented life, complete with perfect housekeeper, in an idyllic English village. Her romantic life consists of an annual Christmas card from her old flame George, and her social swirl involves Stanley, a prissy neighbour who keeps her in mind for a future wife, and Hubert, a neurotic widowed priest with an alienated son. Into this stable life comes Miss Plum, whom Miss Penny saves from drowning herself in a duck pond and takes into her quiet, orderly home. The villagers embrace the perpetually weepy, forlorn young woman-at first. But soon her welcome wears thin. With joyfully dark comedy, hilariously odd locals, and an unexpected reappearance from long-lost George, Dorothy Evelyn Smith brilliantly evokes the havoc wreaked by social niceties, misplaced sympathies, and keeping up appearances-not to mention the urge to defend one's peaceful existence!

Autor

Dorothy Evelyn Smith (née Jones) was born in 1893 in the Peak District of Derbyshire. Her father was a minister in the United Free Methodist Church, the family eventually moving to London. However, Dorothy set many of her novels in Yorkshire, which she knew well. By 1911 Dorothy was a part-time student at an art school, and in 1914, she married James Smith, the son of another non-conformist minister. During World War I, Dorothy began to write poetry and short stories, some of which were published. The Smiths had moved to Essex by 1920 where a daughter and later a son were born. The couple remained in the county, and after James's death, Dorothy moved to a bungalow at Leigh-on-Sea to be near her son and his family. In the early years of the Second World War, Dorothy Evelyn Smith began writing her first novel, O, the Brave Music (1943), the first of eleven novels ultimately published, the last in 1966. Dorothy Evelyn Smith died at the age of 76, in 1969.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dean Street Press
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 247g
• ISBN-13: 9781913527358
• ISBN-10: 1913527352
• Artikelnr.: 59765637