Stella Gibbons

Broschiertes Buch

The Yellow Houses

Beschreibung

Wilfred Davis, quiet, retired, respectable widower, is sitting and sobbing on a park bench. He has lost his daughter and any sense of purpose. A mysterious stranger passes him a handkerchief, and strikes up a conversation that leads to friendship and an unconventional new home for Wilfred.

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 publication was a book of poems, The Mountain Beast (1930) and her first novel Cold Comfort Farm (1932) won the Femina Vie Heuruse Prize for 1933. Among her works are Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm (1940) Westwood (1946), Conference at Cold Comfort Farm (1959) and Starlight (1967). She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1950. In 1933 she married the actor and singer Allan Webb. They had one daughter. Stella Gibbons died in 1989.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage Classics
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 710127
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 132mm x 197mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 330g
• ISBN-13: 9781784870287
• ISBN-10: 1784870285
• Artikelnr.: 45088422

Rezensionen

Fans of the acclaimed British author, described as the "Jane Austen of the 20th century" will be delighted that the existence of two never-before-published novels have been revealed by her daughter Independent