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3 Great Historical Novels

Habits of the House, the Silver Thread, the Conductor

3 Great Historical Novels( )
Author: Weldon, Fay
Fitzpatrick, Kylie
Quigley, Sarah
ISBN:978-1-78185-544-7
Publication Date:Mar 2013
Publisher:Head of Zeus
Book Format:Ebook
List Price:USD $7.28
Book Description:

HABITS OF THE HOUSE: An aristocratic household in the last months of the 19th century face bankruptcy, war and social unrest.

THE SILVER THREAD: A murder mystery set at the height of the British Empire

THE CONDUCTOR: The story of how Shostakovich and one valiant, bedraggled orchestra created a defining moment in the siege of Leningrad.

Book Details
Pages:1120
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Historical / General
Author Biography
Weldon, Fay (Author)
Fay Weldon was born in Worcester, England on September 22, 1931. She read economics and psychology at the University of St. Andrews. She worked as a propaganda writer for the British Foreign Office and then as an advertising copywriter for various firms in London before making writing a full-time career.

Her work includes over twenty novels, five collections of short stories, several children's books, non-fiction books, and a number of plays written for television, radio and the stage. Her collections of short stories include Mischief and Nothing to Wear and Nowhere to Hide. She wrote a memoir entitled Auto Da Fay and non-fiction book entitled What Makes Women Happy. She wrote the pilot episode for the television series Upstairs Downstairs.

Her first novel, The Fat Woman's Joke, was published in 1967. Her other novels include Praxis, The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, Puffball, Rhode Island Blues, Mantrapped, She May Not Leave, The Spa Decameron, Habits of the House, Long Live the King, and The New Countess. Wicked Women won the PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award. She was awarded a CBE in 2001.

Fay Weldon died on January 4, 2023, in a nursing home in Northampton, England, at the age of 91.

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