An open book by Dickens, Monica
An open book by Dickens, Monica
Hardcover, fine condition, dust jacket faded spine, and minor shelf/edge wear, small dimpled mark on front cover. ISBN 9780434192250 Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd 01/09/1978, 1978
"The highly successful novelist Monica Dickens is the great-granddaughter 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...'
