My American Stella Gibbons

Name: My American By Stella Gibbons
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My American by Stella Gibbons

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** AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME **

'Stella Gibbons's gift is very special' Daily Express

Amy, a neglected motherless child in 1920s London meets Robert, a wealthy American boy.

My American Summary

My American by Stella Gibbons

** AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME **

'Stella Gibbons's gift is very special' Daily Express

Amy, a neglected motherless child in 1920s London meets Robert, a wealthy American boy. It's an encounter she will never forget.

My American follows the lives and loves of Amy Lee and Robert Vorst: from a chance childhood meeting to the comic, tragic and romantic trysts that follow. Amy, a baker's daughter, has dreams of becoming a writer, whilst Robert is destined to be a doctor. Later, embarking on a lecture tour in Depression-era America, she is reminded of her childhood friend and endeavours to find him.

My American is an unashamedly romantic novel by Stella Gibbons, author of the beloved satire Cold Comfort Farm.

My American Reviews

Stella Gibbons's gift is very special * Daily Express *
Chipper is the word: Gibbons's heroines are plucky, determined and quietly hedonistic. But she can do melancholy with the best of them, too, not to mention melodrama * Guardian *
Stella Gibbons...an exception to that old canard: women can't make us laugh * Independent *
The Jane Austen of the 20th century -- Lynne Truss
Stella is stellar * Sunday Herald *

About Stella Gibbons

Stella Gibbons 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. Stella Gibbons is the author of twenty-five novels, three volumes of short stories, and four volumes of poetry. 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. Among her works are Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm (1940) Westwood (1946), Conference at Cold Comfort Farm (1959) and Starlight (1967). She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1950. In 1933 she married the actor and singer Allan Webb. They had one daughter. Stella Gibbons died in 1989.

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Sku

GOR007910454

ISBN 13

9780099529347

ISBN 10

0099529343

Title

My American by Stella Gibbons

Author

Stella Gibbons

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Vintage Publishing

Year published

20110804

Number of pages

480

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N/A

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