Valerie Grove Boeken

Frank and funny, unorthodox, liberated and quintessentially English, Dodie Smith, playwright and novelist, was the author of those immortal classics, The Hundred and One Dalmations and I Capture the Castle.

"As a poet, playwright, broadcaster and writer, Laurie Lee created a legend around himself that would see him safely secured in the literary canon, even in his own lifetime. Yet, although he wrote exclusively about his own life, Lee never told the whole story ... biographer Valerie Grove delves into the letters and diaries he kept hidden from the world, building on her magisterial study of the charismatic poet to capture the essence of thios romantic, elusive enigma and bring him to life once more"--Publisher's description