Lucy Carmichael

Beschreibung

Rediscover the brilliance of Lucy Carmichael in the Mermaid Collection - timeless classics by pioneering female authors, beautifully reissued to enchant today's readers.'The Mermaid Collection is so sure footed that you're unlikely to go wrong' India Knight<BR>Originally published in 1951 from the author of beloved holiday classic The Feast comes a glorious coming-of-age tale about a heroine whose wedding day does not go entirely to plan . . . <BR><BR>With a foreword by Lucy Mangan <BR><BR>***<BR><BR>'People seem to get over things, don't they?

I don't know how, but they do - ordinary people. I'm very ordinary, so I expect I shall do what they do.'<BR><BR>Lucy Carmichael is jilted at the altar. But no matter. Her loving and kind family never liked her explorer fiancé anyway.<BR><BR>Instead of moping or falling into her supportive family's arms, however, Lucy abandons their suburban home. Heading for the country, she takes up a teaching position in the industrial town of Ravonsbridge.<BR><BR>There, she finds solace in her work, in her new (rather gossipy) colleagues - and rediscovers her sensible young self.<BR><BR>But if Lucy has, despite everything, kept her head - where lies her heart?<BR><BR>Praise for Margaret Kennedy:<BR><BR>'She is not only a romantic but an anarchist, and she knows the ways of men and women very well indeed' Anita Brookner<BR><BR>'Kennedy was immensely popular in her heyday' Washington Post<BR><BR>'Margaret Kennedy's poised style, cool wit and skilful characterization kept her novels welcome for three decades' Cambridge Guide to Literature in English

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