A far cry from Kensington

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Muriel Spark: A far cry from Kensington (1988, Constable)

189 pages

English language

Published July 6, 1988 by Constable.

ISBN:
978-0-09-468290-0
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Set in 1954, this is a tale narrated by one Mrs Agnes Hawkins, a plump, forthright and no-nonsense young war widow. Nancy (as she is called) is the calm at the center of the perennial storm in the offices of a struggling London publishing house in the difficult years after WWII. At work and at her seedy boarding house she is involved with a cast of characters ranging from the charmingly useless to the downright unhinged; included an author she rejects and who tries to revenge himself through a quack science known as "radionics" (use of radio waves to influence health).

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Subjects

  • Publishers and publishing -- Fiction
  • Literature publishing -- Fiction
  • Women editors -- Fiction
  • Widows -- Fiction
  • London (England) -- Fiction

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