A Bachelor Husband by Ruby M Ayres
Marie grew up with Christopher for part of their childhood and always adored him. She is 24 when the story opens and Marie’s father has just died. Almost as soon as the will is read, Chris proposes and she accepts him. But then misunderstandings ensue about the will and regarding Chris's motives in proposing, and Marie tells him to consider himself not married – a ‘bachelor husband’. Will the situation be sorted out? What is the truth?Ruby Mildred Ayres was born on 28 January 1881, in Watford, Hertfordshire, the third daughter of the marriage formed by Alice (née Whitford) and Charles Pryor Ayres, a London-based architect. In 1909 she married Reginald William Pocock, a insurance broker, and they lived in Harrow until his death in a train accident. As a widow without children, she moved to her sister’s home at Weybridge, Surrey.
She started to write as a girl, and her first story was published in a magazine shortly after her marriage, and in 1912, she published her first novel, Castles in Spain. In September 1915, with her first popular success, Richard Chatterton, V.C. (which sold over 50,000 copies in the first three years), she moved publishing houses to Hodder and Stoughton, where she remained until her death, in 1955. She wrote over 150 novels and serialized works. Several of her works became films, and she did screenwriting for Society for Sale among others. She corresponded with Douglas Sladen, and also was possibly an inspiration for the P. G. Wodehouse character Rosie M. Banks. She died on 14 November 1955 in a nursing home in Weybridge, aged 74, of a combination of pneumonia and a cerebral thrombosis. She was cremated four days later at Golders Green in north London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9789357317177 |
| ISBN 10 | 9357317171 |
| Title | A Bachelor Husband |
| Author | Ruby M Ayres |
| Series | Yellowbacks |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Hachette Book Publishing India Pvt Ltd |
| Year published | 2025-06-20 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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