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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Thrown out of her long-established office job Miss Christine Smith takes up a new role as housekeeper for a group of middle-aged artists. Charmed by a previous mystical experience her spirituality is nurtured further by the tenants who seem stuck in their own personal lull. Written in the 1960s surrounded by social and political transitions the novel focuses on change or the lack thereof. Zusammenfassung Thrown out of her long-established office job, Miss Christine Smith takes up a new role as housekeeper for a group of middle-aged artists. Written in the 1960s, surrounded by social and political transitions, the novel focuses on change, or the lack thereof.
