Man Overboard - Softcover

Dickens, Monica

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140018131 ISBN 13: 9780140018134

Publisher: Penguin, 1978

Synopsis

267 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. A Humorous Account Of A Naval Officer Chucked In At The Deep End Of Life, With A Young Daughter In Tow And The Dead Weight Of A TV Star Hung Round His Neck.

About this title

About the Author:

Great grand daughter to Charles Dickens, Monica (1915-1992) was born into an upper middle class family. Disillusioned with the world she was brought up in - she was expelled from St Paul’s Girls’ School in London for throwing her school uniform over Hammersmith Bridge - Dickens then decided to go into service, despite coming from the privileged class; her experiences as a cook and general servant would form the nucleus of her first book, One Pair Of Hands in 1939.

Dickens married an American Navy officer, Roy O. Stratton, and spent much of her adult life in Massachusetts and Washington D.C., but the majority of writing continued to be set in Britain. Her book of 1953, No More Meadows, reflected her work with the NSPCC and she later helped to found the American Samaritans in Massachusetts. Between 1970 and 1971 she wrote a series of children’s books known as The Worlds End Series which dealt with rescuing animals, and to some extent children. After the death of her husband in 1985, Dickens returned to England where she continued to write until her death aged 77.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0140018131
• ISBN 13: 9780140018134
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272