
Lady Living Alone
Norah Lofts(Author)
British Library Publishing
Published on 3. October 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-0-7123-5512-4 (ISBN)
Description
And now, in this low and critical moment, something in Penelope, something which had understood courage and resource and action, though she herself had never been brave or resourceful or active, stirred and shook itself.
Penelope Shadow is quite hopeless at female pursuits, such as housework, looking after children or darning a sock. One day she buys a typewriter and realizes that she has a flare for writing romantic novels. As one bestseller after another springs from her fertile mind, she is able to buy a house and live a comfortable life.
Being equally inept at managing staff, she loses a number of housekeepers before employing a capable and attentive young man. When local gossip ensues, he declares his love and they are married. But are his motives true? Is she in danger? As events twist and turn, she has to summon the strength of her feisty heroines to work out what they would do in the novel's denouement.
Penelope Shadow is quite hopeless at female pursuits, such as housework, looking after children or darning a sock. One day she buys a typewriter and realizes that she has a flare for writing romantic novels. As one bestseller after another springs from her fertile mind, she is able to buy a house and live a comfortable life.
Being equally inept at managing staff, she loses a number of housekeepers before employing a capable and attentive young man. When local gossip ensues, he declares his love and they are married. But are his motives true? Is she in danger? As events twist and turn, she has to summon the strength of her feisty heroines to work out what they would do in the novel's denouement.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 188 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
196 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7123-5512-4 (9780712355124)
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Person
Norah Lofts (1904-1983) wrote more than 50 books, mainly specialising in historical fiction. She published her murder-mystery novels under the pen name Peter Curtis.