The Quivering Tree: An East Anglian Childhood - Hardcover

Haymon, S. T.

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9780312049867: The Quivering Tree: An East Anglian Childhood

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ISBN 10: 0312049862 ISBN 13: 9780312049867

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1990

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As a young girl, the author struggles to cope with the death of her father, her mother's absence, the two eccentric teachers with whom she lives, life in a Norwich girls' school, and approaching adolescence

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Book Description:

A memoir of East Anglia

About the Author:

"One of the purest lyric voices in the mystery field" New York Times Book Review

Sylvia Theresa Haymon was born in Norwich, and is best known for her eight crime fiction novels featuring the character Inspector Ben Jurnet. Haymon also wrote two non-fiction books for children, as well as two memoirs of her childhood in East Anglia.

The Ben Jurnet series enjoyed success in both the UK and the US during Haymon's lifetime: Ritual Murder (1982) won the prestigious CWA Silver Dagger Award from the Crime Writers' Association. Stately Homicide (1984), a skilful variation on the country house mystery, was praised by the New York Times as a 'brilliantly crafted novel of detection...stylish serious fiction', and favourably compared to the work of Dorothy L. Sayers.

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