Stella Gibbons

My American

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Produktbeschreibung

AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME 'Stella Gibbons's gift is very special' Daily ExpressAmy, a neglected motherless child in 1920s London meets Robert, a wealthy American boy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 123mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 336g
• ISBN-13: 9780099529347
• ISBN-10: 0099529343
• Artikelnr.: 35481685

Autorenporträt

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.