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After the sudden death of his wife, Daniel abandons home and security, setting off to find the freedom he knew as a boy. This novel follows his wanderings from a seaside boarding house to a hospital bed, introducing the strange characters he meets and recording his even stranger adventures.

Dora is invited out to America to help set up a home of rest for horses. When she leaves and is given a horse to take back to Follyfoot, she can't believe her luck. One of the horses falls ill. And it looks like the same epidemic that is sweeping America . Has Dora's horse brought the disease to England?

At Follyfoot Farm, the Colonel looks after old and ill-treated horses, helped by his stepdaughter, Callie, and two stable-hands, Dora and Steve. These three have plenty to do at the stables, but can always find time to get involved in the mystery and adventure that abound at Follyfoot Farm.

What does a young, well-off English woman do with herself when she's thrown out of acting school and is tired of being a debutante? Well, if you're Monica Dickens, you become a cook. She makes the plunge to a life "below the stairs," confident in her abilities to be a cook because she once took a course in French cuisine. She quickly learns the difference between school learning and real life. Scalded milk, dropped roasts, and fallen souffles plague her in her domestic career, but she perseveres. What makes this book so delightful is the sense of humor and drama Monica Dickens brings to her work. From dressing up for job interviews in a "supporting-a-widowed-mum look" to eavesdropping on dinner guests, she tackles her work with an enthusiasm for discovery. To her descriptions of battles with crazy scullery maids, abusive employers, and unwieldy custards, she brings a humorous and pointed commentary about the delicate and ongoing war between the wealthy and their servants. Written in 1939, this true-life experience reveals a writer who wasted no opportunity to explore daily lives and dramas. Her keen eye for detail, youthful resilience, and sense of the absurd make One Pair of Hands a deliciously inside look at the households of the British upper-class.

A 1930s Bridget Jones who is waiting, often desperately, for the right man

A charming, funny and fascinating account of a young trainee nurse during the Second World War.

Lieutenant-Commander, the hero of this novel, is axed from the Navy at the age of 36, one of many thousands obliged to re-plan their lives as the result of cuts in the armed services. A widower with a small daughter, he has no experience or knowledge outside submarines and the Royal Navy. His whole life had been that of a sailor since he joined up direct from school at the beginning of the war. This is not only the story of his struggles and adventures when he tries to find some way of earning his living; it is the story of his difficulty in adjusting himself to an unfamiliar civilian world. Monica Dickens's novel is the story of all such men in any of the services who find themselves so rudely thrust into the ordinary life of their country which, though they have served unselfishly, they find they are ill-equipped to live in. Written with the lighter humorous touch of some of her earlier books, it is a sympathetic presentation of the human side of one of those mass adjustments forced on society by the changing nature of the world and its affairs.

Poppy, newly recruited cub reporter at the Downingham Post, is determined to prove to the editor that he's wrong in his belief that 'Women are a nuisance in the office'. He certainly doesn't think she's a nuisance when it's time for the tea round - a job which never fails to fall to the only female reporter.What Poppy lacks in experience, she makes up for in spirit and ambition. She'll make the Downingham Post the best regional newspaper there is - even if she occasionally gets the names wrong in court hearings. Life, for a single professional woman in the post-war years, certainly has its challenges - from finding a room, when the tyrannical landlady doesn't consider Poppy to be quite respectable, to changing her editor's deeply entrenched ways. This semi-autobiographical novel, recounted with Monica Dickens's wit, warmth and wry observation, will charm all who read it.

Leonard's life has never seemed safer or better. Then through the door comes Toby, he brings with him the excitement of change but he is not what he appears to be, and in the end brings tragedy.

The Winds of Heaven is a 1955 novel about 'a widow, rising sixty, with no particular gifts or skills, shunted from one to the other of her more or less unwilling daughters on perpetual uneasy visits, with no prospect of her life getting anything but worse’ (Afterword). One daughter is the socially ambitious Miriam living in commuter belt with her barrister husband and children; one is Eva, an aspiring actress in love with a married man; and the third is Anne, married to a rough but kindly Bedfordshire smallholder who is the only one who treats Louise with more than merely dutiful sympathy. The one relation with whom she has any empathy is her grandchild.

When two young women, Lily and Ida, meet on a flight to America they embark on a relationship that is to see them through two very different marriages and is to bring them comfort and distress, joy and tragedy, in equal measure as the years unfold.

Das Haus am Ende der Welt ist ein zerfallener ehem. Gasthof in ländl. Einsamkeit. Die Fielding-Kinder, 2 Jungen und 2 Mädchen, leben dort einige Zeit allein, fei von allen Bevormundungen, aber nicht frei von allerlei Tücken und Gefahren....da gibt es noch ein Pferd, das Welshpony und den Esel...Hund, vier Katzen, und mehr Tiere. Und als einmal das Abenteuer zur drohenden Gefahr für die Kinder wird, ist es der treue Pinscher, der der Fielding Schwester das LEben rettet. und...die Kinder retten ihn in einem waghalsigen Kampf vor einem grausamen Ende. In sich abgeschlossene Fortsetzung von "Das Haus am Ende der Welt". Eine Robinsonade aus unserer Welt.

Um den kranken Major Oliver North schwirren seine elfköpfige Familie und last not least seine Pflegerin in geschäftiger Fürsorge umher. Von seinem Bett aus spiegelt sich das Leben von all seinen fröhlichen und traurigen Seiten, bis mit Hilfe seiner charmanten Krankenschwester Elizabeth auch er selbst wieder Glück und Spaß am Leben findet. Ein aufmunternder und trostreicher Familienroman, der alle kleinen und großen Sorgen des Alltags vergessen läßt.

Follyfoot die Pferdefarm Auf einem Hügel, inmitten von saftigen, grünen Wiesen liegt Follyfoot die Pferdefarm. Ein Ort, an dem sich Pferde so richtig wohl fühlen können. Auch die Kinder Callie, Dora und Paul haben hier ein Zuhause gefunden. Tatkräftig greifen sie dem ‚Captain‘ unter die Arme. Doch nicht überall ist ihr Engagement gern gesehen, und mancher Nachbar versucht ihnen einen bösen Streich zu spielen … Die Kinder auf Follyfoot Eine große Herausforderung für Dora und Paul: Der ‚Captain‘ ist krank geworden und hat den Freunden die Verantwortung für die Pferde übertragen. Alles läuft reibungslos, doch dann bringt Dora das verwilderte Pferd Barney auf den Hof. Das äußerst verängstigte Tier entpuppt sich schon bald als großes Springtalent. Die Pferde auf Follyfoot Ein Amerikaner sorgt für Aufregung: Bei seinem Englandbesuch hat Dr. Blankenheimer die Follyfoot-Farm kennengelernt. Nun möchte er einen ähnlichen Hof in Amerika einrichten. Kurzerhand lädt er Dora zu sich ein, damit sie ihm beim Aufbau hilft. Ob das Projekt mit ihrer Unterstützung Erfolg haben wird?

Ser feliz en el Fin del mundo no es difícil. Tom, Carrie, Em y Michael lo son, aunque sus padres no estén con ellos, aunque la casa en la que viven esté semiderruida… Pero tienen a su alcance todos los animales que desean. La británica Monica Dickens ha escrito una estupenda novela de humor, que describe las andanzas de una familia nada convencional.

Meine Pferde - Meine Freunde - Geschichten vom Umgang mit Pferden - bk1353; Franz Schneider Verlag; Monica Dickens; Paperback; 1988

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