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Nightingale Wood

Nightingale Wood - Paperback

by Stella Gibbons
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Availability:In StockContributor:Stella Gibbons, Sophie Dahl (Introduction by)Audience:Young AdultPublish date:2010-04-27Pages:400
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Adult Hc/TrISBN-13:9780143117575ISBN-10:143117572UPC:9780143117575Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Humorous, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, RomanceBook Topic:HistoricalSize:7.66 x 5.32 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5908Product ID:SCAGJ21EQV
A sly and satirical fairytale by the author of Cold Comfort Farm

Unavailable for decades, Stella Gibbons's Nightingale Wood is a delightfully modern romance ripe for rediscovery by the many fans of Cold Comfort Farm.

Poor, lovely Viola has been left penniless and alone after her late husband's demise, and is forced to live with his family in their joy-less home. Its occupants are nearly insufferable: Mr. Withers is a tyrannical old miser; Mrs. Withers dismisses her as a common shop girl; and Viola's sisters-in-law, Madge and Tina, are too preoccupied with their own troubles to give her much thought. Only the prospect of the upcoming charity ball can lift her spirits-especially as Victor Spring, the local prince charming, will be there. But Victor's intentions towards the young widow are, in short, not quite honorable.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Adult Hc/TrISBN-13:9780143117575ISBN-10:143117572UPC:9780143117575Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Humorous, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, RomanceBook Topic:HistoricalSize:7.66 x 5.32 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5908Product ID:SCAGJ21EQV
Stella Dorothea Gibbons, novelist, poet and short-story writer, 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.

Her first publication was a book of poems The Mountain Beast (1930) and her first novel Cold Comfort Farm (1932) won the Femina Vie Heuruse Prize for 1933. Amongst her other novels are Miss Linsey and Pa (1936), Nightingale Wood (1938), Westwood (1946), Conference at Cold Comfort Farm (1959) and Beside the Pearly Water (1954). Her Collected Poems appeared in 1950.

In 1933 she married the actor and singer Allan Webb, who died in 1959. They had one daughter. Stella Gibbons died in 1989.


Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr

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Stella Gibbons, Sophie Dahl (Introduction by)

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Stella Gibbons

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