MONICA DICKENS

AN OPEN BOOK

AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Publisher: William Heinnemann, London, UK
Publication Date: 1978
Binding: Hardcover with UNclipped dustjacket 210 pages
Book Condition: OUTSTANDING - it appears UNread
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good ~ complete still has One pound 50p price on front flap
Edition: First Edition

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- S-C-A-R-C-E Collectible Book -
GORGEOUS ~ A MUST for HORSE LOVERS!

Large Hardcover in OUTSTANDING CONDITION not a mark, crease, stain in it!!! There are wonderful photographic illustrations throughout. Pale brown fleck cloth boards are in excellent condition. Internally an 'As New' copy!

It's 'As New' & appears UNread, been part of a large family collection since purchase - Tight - neat, no inscriptions or marks. Appears as in my photos - this is the exact copy!! A beautifully preserved copy - pristine.

No discernible shelf wear, the interior is tight and with 210 spotlessly clean pages all. Published by William Heinemann Ltd, London, UK in 1978. This is her autobiography.

SYNOPSIS

"The highly successful novelist Monica Dickens is the great-grand-daughter of Charles Dickens. Here she tells the story of her life and those she worked with and met, ministered to as a domestic servant, eased and cheered as a nurse, loved and cherished as friend, wife and mother. She writes:
'This is not the whole story of a life. It is an attempt to recapture some of those elements of it which are the origins of the books I have written. So childhood must be looked at, not only because I have written children's books, self-indulgently for the child still within, but because it is both the soil and the roots of what grows later...'

In 1978 Monica Dickens published her autobiography, An Open Book. In 1985 she returned to the UK after the death of her husband, and continued to write until her death on Christmas Day 1992, her final book being published posthumously. She was also an occasional broadcaster for most of her writing career.

What a shame this is out of print!!! Monica Dickens (descendent of Charles Dickens) describes her life in horses in a way any horse lover can relate to. Horse care, trail riding, showing and dealing with "non-horsey" people are all relayed with humor and yet truth. Lovely photographs & illustrations too.

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About the author:

Monica Dickens was the great granddaughter of Charles Dickens, and began her writing career with a mostly autobiographical account of her time as a cook-general, One Pair Of Hands (1939). During World War II she worked as a nurse in a hospital, and subsequently turned these experiences into One Pair Of Feet (1942). The furore this caused in the medical establishment ensured that "Nurse Diggins" would never work as a nurse again. Next came The Fancy (1943), in which she used her own experiences of working in a munitions factory, turning out Spitfires. She continued her semi-autobiographical stories with My Turn To Make The Tea (1951), detailing the experiences of a female reporter working for a small regional newspaper.
Monica Dickens wrote for both adults and children, gifted not only in understanding her audience, but also in portraying her characters in a sympathetic yet unsentimental light.

'Surely,' I thought, 'there's something more to life than just going out to parties one doesn't enjoy, with people one doesn't even like? What a pointless existence it is - drifting about in the hope that something may happen to relieve the monotony. Something has got to be done to get me out of this rut.'
- from One Pair of Hands, Monica Dickens, 1939

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