Business as Usual

First published in 1932, this illustrated novel tells the story through letters of Hilary Fane, who is determined to support herself in London for a year. Working in a department store, she must enforce modernising systems on her entrenched colleagues.

About the author

‘Jane Oliver’ was the pen-name of Helen Evans (1903-1970). Formerly a PE teacher, a pilot, and Clemence Dane’s secretary, Helen met her co-author Ann Stafford (the pen-name of Anne Pedler, 1900-1966) when working at the Times Book Club. Business as Usual was their first joint novel: together and as solo authors they published at least ninety-seven books.
Helen married the author John Llewelyn Rhys, who was killed in the Second World War. She and Anne founded the Llewelyn Rhys Prize in his memory. They later lived near each other in Hampshire where they were prominent historical novelists and campaigners for animal welfare.

Summary

Business As Usual is a delightful illustrated novel in letters from Hilary Fane, an Edinburgh girl fresh out of university who is determined to support herself by her own earnings in London for a year, despite the mutterings of her surgeon fiancée.

Product details

• Authors: Helen Oliver, Jane Oliver
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781912766185
• ISBN: 978-1-912766-18-5
• No. of pages: 266
• Series: Handheld Classics; single ladies; Handheld Comic Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Liebesromane, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), FICTION / Epistolary, FICTION / Feminist