Stella Gibbons

Broschiertes Buch

The Matchmaker

Beschreibung

Uprooted from war-torn London, Alda Lucie-Brown and her three daughters start a new life at Pine Cottage in rural Sussex. Unsuited to a quiet life, Alda attempts to orchestrate - with varying degrees of success - the love affairs of her neighbours.

Autor

Stella Gibbons was born in London in 1902. She went to the North London Collegiate School and studied journalism at University College, London. She then worked for ten years on various papers, including the Evening Standard . Stella Gibbons is the author of twenty-five novels, three volumes of short stories, and four volumes of poetry. Her first novel Cold Comfort Farm (1932) was an immediate success and won the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize for 1933. Among her works are Nightingale Wood (1938), The Bachelor (1944), Westwood (1946), and Starlight (1967). She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1950. Stella Gibbons died in 1989.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 131mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 302g
• ISBN-13: 9780099529330
• ISBN-10: 0099529335
• Artikelnr.: 34884228