London War Notes Category_Grey Books/Humour As Lydia Fellgett writes in

As Lydia Fellgett writes in her Persephone Preface: ‘A political novel cannot be successful without well-written characters: it is therefore also a love story between Jenny Clegg and the Independent Labour Party member Joe Hopton

Whipple was the bestselling author of nine novels

her grandmother kind and understanding (she is evoked in Greenbanks)

Maureen Lipman in her preface to our edition describes Patience as 'delicious'

London War Notes Category_Grey Books/Humour As Lydia Fellgett writes inPREFACE BY DAVID KYNASTON 480pp ISBN 9781910263013 Mollie Panter Downes not only wrote short stories (Good Evening, Mrs Craven: The Wartime Stories and Minnies Room: The Peacetime Stories) but also non fiction Letters from London for The New Yorker. She wrote her first one on September 3rd 1939; on May 12th 1945 she wrote her hundred and fifty third. Her New Yorker obituary observed: Other correspondents were writing about the war, of course, often