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Monica Dickens

    10. květen 1915 – 25. prosinec 1992

    Monica Dickens se zaměřovala na zachycení všedního života a lidských vztahů s pronikavým pozorováním. Její dílo, které často čerpá z vlastních zkušeností, proniká do nitra postav a ukazuje je v jejich radostech i strastech. S cílem pobavit a zároveň přimět čtenáře k rozpoznání vlastního života ve svých knihách, Dickens vytvořila poutavé a autentické vyprávění. Její styl je charakteristický svou bezprostředností a schopností vykreslit jemné nuance lidské povahy.

    Monica Dickens
    My Turn to Make the Tea
    Mariana
    Follyfoot
    The Winds of Heaven
    The Horses of Follyfoot
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    • The Horses of Follyfoot

      • 208 stránek
      • 8 hodin čtení
      3,5(2)Ohodnotit

      Dora is invited out to America to help set up a home of rest for horses. When she leaves and is given a horse to take back to Follyfoot, she can't believe her luck. One of the horses falls ill. And it looks like the same epidemic that is sweeping America . Has Dora's horse brought the disease to England?

      The Horses of Follyfoot
    • The Winds of Heaven is a 1955 novel about 'a widow, rising sixty, with no particular gifts or skills, shunted from one to the other of her more or less unwilling daughters on perpetual uneasy visits, with no prospect of her life getting anything but worse’ (Afterword). One daughter is the socially ambitious Miriam living in commuter belt with her barrister husband and children; one is Eva, an aspiring actress in love with a married man; and the third is Anne, married to a rough but kindly Bedfordshire smallholder who is the only one who treats Louise with more than merely dutiful sympathy. The one relation with whom she has any empathy is her grandchild.

      The Winds of Heaven
    • Follyfoot

      • 143 stránek
      • 6 hodin čtení
      3,7(9)Ohodnotit

      Follyfoot Farm is a retirement home for rescued horses, managed by the Colonel with the help of his stepdaughter Callie and stable-hands Dora and Steve, who all have their hands full caring for the animals.

      Follyfoot
    • A 1930s Bridget Jones who is waiting, often desperately, for the right man

      Mariana
    • Poppy, newly recruited cub reporter at the Downingham Post, is determined to prove to the editor that he's wrong in his belief that 'Women are a nuisance in the office'. He certainly doesn't think she's a nuisance when it's time for the tea round - a job which never fails to fall to the only female reporter.What Poppy lacks in experience, she makes up for in spirit and ambition. She'll make the Downingham Post the best regional newspaper there is - even if she occasionally gets the names wrong in court hearings. Life, for a single professional woman in the post-war years, certainly has its challenges - from finding a room, when the tyrannical landlady doesn't consider Poppy to be quite respectable, to changing her editor's deeply entrenched ways. This semi-autobiographical novel, recounted with Monica Dickens's wit, warmth and wry observation, will charm all who read it.

      My Turn to Make the Tea
    • What does a young, well-off English woman do with herself when she's thrown out of acting school and is tired of being a debutante? Well, if you're Monica Dickens, you become a cook. She makes the plunge to a life "below the stairs," confident in her abilities to be a cook because she once took a course in French cuisine. She quickly learns the difference between school learning and real life. Scalded milk, dropped roasts, and fallen souffles plague her in her domestic career, but she perseveres. What makes this book so delightful is the sense of humor and drama Monica Dickens brings to her work. From dressing up for job interviews in a "supporting-a-widowed-mum look" to eavesdropping on dinner guests, she tackles her work with an enthusiasm for discovery. To her descriptions of battles with crazy scullery maids, abusive employers, and unwieldy custards, she brings a humorous and pointed commentary about the delicate and ongoing war between the wealthy and their servants. Written in 1939, this true-life experience reveals a writer who wasted no opportunity to explore daily lives and dramas. Her keen eye for detail, youthful resilience, and sense of the absurd make One Pair of Hands a deliciously inside look at the households of the British upper-class.

      One Pair of Hands
    • A charming, funny and fascinating account of a young trainee nurse during the Second World War.

      One Pair of Feet
    • Leonard's life has never seemed safer or better. Then through the door comes Toby, he brings with him the excitement of change but he is not what he appears to be, and in the end brings tragedy.

      One of the Family