See How They Run
Tickell, Jerrard (Edward Jerrard Tickell)
Published by William Heinemann, London (1936) Signed and inscribed on the title page by the author to 'Bunty', with a toilet cistern sketch. Same year reprint. Bound in the publisher's green hardcover boards, titled in gilt to the spine. Spine a little soiled, minor spine ends and edge bumping. Internally the pages are a little toned, but otherwise clean and tight. The author's third novel, and the second from 1936.
Excerpt - Is love the most important thing in marriage... ? Nicola found her way to England on the Famine Train, one of over two hundred children fleeing starvation in Austria after The Great War. She made a promise to herself that she would never let herself starve again. She would have married her true love Peter in an instant, if he would have had her. But he sent her away, determined to make something of himself before they married. Nicola wrote to Peter almost every day, desperate to fill the space between them with endless words. But one-day Peter received a letter that would change everything. It told him she was going to marry a man called Otto von Muhlenthal quite soon. But what she didn't tell him was that her father was dying and she was about to become a pauper once more. Her father, Colonel Lenke, no longer believed in the type of love for which he had married Nicola's mother - the kind of love that Nicola had for Peter. She couldn't even afford to bury her father, let alone buy food. She promised herself she would never starve again. She has no choice but to follow her father's wishes and marry Otto. But in doing so, has she given up on love forever?
Edwards Jerrard Tickell was born in Dublin and educated in Tipperary and London. He joined the Royal Army Service Corps in 1940 and was commissioned in 1941, when he was appointed to the War Office. Between 1943 and 1945 his official duties took him to Africa, the Middle East, Washington DC, Canada, the West Indies, and Europe. He was appointed to the General Staff in 1945. He was married to the author and spiritualist Renee Haynes (the granddaughter of Thomas Huxley) and they had three sons: Crispin, Patrick, and Tom.
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