Living on Yesterday by Edith Templeton

Living on Yesterday by Edith Templeton

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Edith Templeton was born in Prague in 1916, and spent much of her childhood in a castle in the Bohemian countryside. She was educated at a French lycü¾Ž–”¼e in Prague, and left that city in 1938 to marry an Englishman. During her years in Britain, she worked in the Office of the Chief Surgeon for the U.S. Army in Cheltenham, and then became a captain in the British Army, working as a high-level conference interpreter. Her short stories began to appear in The New Yorker in the fifties, and over the enxt several decades she published a number of novels, as well as a popular travel book, The Surprise of Cremona, in the United Kingdom.

Mrs. Templeton left England in 1956 to live in India with her second husband, a celebrated cardiologist and the physician to the King of Nepal. She has since lived in various parts of Europe, and now makes her home in Bordighera, on the coast of Italy.

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ISBN 13 9780701207212
ISBN 10 0701207213
Title Living on Yesterday
Author Edith Templeton
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Random House (UK)
Year published 1986-05-08
Number of pages 256
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