Tag: 1950s novel

• An Impossible Marriage

  Right, after Margery Sharp here’s another New-to-Me novelist to enthuse about – Pamela Hansford Johnson who was, apparently, immensely popular from the late 1930s through to the 1960s, but seems to have been largely forgotten in recent years. I’ve seen a couple of blog posts about her, and read reviews of Wendy Pollard’s ‘Pamela Hansford…

  chrisharding53

  February 18, 2015

  1930s, 1950s novel, Bello digital re-issues, forgotten novel, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Pamela Hansford Johnson, Pan Mamillan

• An Un-Childlike Child!

  Penguin number 1211, published inin 1957 – don’t you wish paperbacks were still two shillings and sixpence? It’s wartime London (Second World War that is) and Grace, who who is engaged to Hughie, falls in love with a charming Frenchman. A month later they are married and after a two-week honeymoon he returns to his…

  chrisharding53

  November 5, 2012

  1950s novel, France, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Nancy Mitford, The Blessing