Here Be Dragons

Author: Gibbons, Stella

Brand: Vintage Classics

Binding: paperback

Number Of Pages: 384

Release Date: 02-09-2013

Part Number: FLPK9780099529361

Details: Product Description
When Nell Sely moves from sleepy Dorset to Hampstead she leaves behind a childhood of dull teas and oppressive rules for the freedom of the big city. Naive and only nineteen, she becomes embroiled with the wayward John Gaunt and falls in with London's bohemian crowd. In this city of seductive, shifting morals, smoke-filled jazz-clubs and glamorous espresso bars, Nell must master her new found independence and learn to strike her own course.
Review
The atmosphere of the cheap cafés...is subtly caught. Packed tight with wit and understanding, it lights the London Scene ―
Scotsman

Chipper is the word: Gibbons's heroines are plucky, determined and quietly hedonistic. But she can do melancholy with the best of them, too, not to mention melodrama ―
Guardian

Stella Gibbons
…an exception to that old canard: women can't make us laugh ―
Independent

The Jane Austen of the 20th century -- Lynne Truss

Stella is stellar ―
Sunday Herald
About the Author
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 novel
Cold Comfort Farm (1932) was an immediate success and won the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize for 1933. Among her works are
Nightingale Wood (1938),
The Bachelor (1944),
Westwood (1946), and
Starlight (1967). She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1950. Stella Gibbons died in 1989.

EAN: 9780099529361

Package Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.0 x 1.1 inches

Languages: English