Bertie, May and Mrs Fish

Informationen zum Autor Xandra Bingley ran away from her farm and horses aged seventeen. She went to London to MI5 to save England from communist invasion and then travelled to America with an English poet. In Ireland she started renovations on a lovely house in Co. Kildare. In England again she failed as a law student and joined Ian Hamilton's literary magazine The New Review, moving on to Jonathan Cape. She ran her own Literary Agency for fifteen years. A ride across the farm led to her first published book. Zusammenfassung A lyrical, evocative and wonderfully original wartime memoir about life on a farm in the Cotswolds, seen through the eyes of a child.

Product details

• Authors: Xandra Bingley, Bingley Xandra
• Publisher: Harper Perennial UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.06.2006
• EAN: 9780007149513
• ISBN: 978-0-00-714951-3
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military, HISTORY / Military / General, Gloucestershire, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, Autobiography: historical, political & military, British & Irish history, Second World War, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Autobiography: historical, political and military, Modern warfare, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater