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Synopsis
A day-dreaming fifteen-year-old schoolgirl from a good home becomes pregnant. She has encouraged a boy to seduce her, glories in her pregnant state, and is bitterly resentful when her parents talk her into having an abortion. To try to recapture her lost bliss, she pads herself up to be pregnant, runs away from home, and finds refuge with a household of young squatters, most of whom are thrilled by the prospect of the baby. But Miranda has overdone the padding, makinging it appear that the baby's due any moment now. How can Miranda save face and carry off the situation? Another brilliant suspense out of a seemimgly ordinary situation. We are now asking even what the nature of the crime is going to be...
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About the Author
Celia Fremlin (1914-2009) was born in Kent. Her first published novel of suspense was The Hours Before Dawn (1958), which went on to win the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Award for Best Novel in 1960. Over the next thirty-five years Fremlin published a further eighteen titles.
'Britain's equivalent to Patricia Highsmith, Celia Fremlin wrote psychological thrillers that changed the landscape of crime fiction for ever: her novels are domestic, subtle, penetrating - and quite horribly chilling.' Andrew Taylor, Celia Fremlin (1914-2009) was born in Kent and educated at Berkhamsted School for Girls and Somerville College, Oxford, where she read classics and philosophy. During the Second World War she worked for the Mass Observation project, an experience that resulted in her first published book, War Factory (1943, available in Faber Finds), which recorded the experiences and attitudes of women war workers in a radar equipment factory outside Malmesbury, Wiltshire. Her first published novel of suspense was The Hours Before Dawn (1958), which went on to win the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Allan Poe award for best crime novel in 1960. Over the next 35 years Fremlin published a further eighteen titles, including three collections of stories. Faber Finds is proud to be reissuing Celia Fremlin's complete oeuvre in paperback and ebook.
'Britain's equivalent to Patricia Highsmith, Celia Fremlin wrote psychological thrillers that changed the landscape of crime fiction for ever: her novels are domestic, subtle, penetrating - and quite horribly chilling.' Andrew Taylor
'Celia Fremlin is an astonishing writer, who explores that nightmare country where brain, mind and self battle to establish the truth. She illuminates her dark world with acute perception and great wit.' Natasha Cooper
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WITH NO CRYING
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Gollancz, London, England, 1980
ISBN 10: 0575028491
ISBN 13: 9780575028494
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Seller: MURDER BY THE BOOK, Warwick, RI, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 1st. UK Edition. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE DJ is price clipped. Previous owners name in ink to back of front cover. the story of Miranda Field, a 15-year old girl who gets pregnant during her first sexual experience (with a popular boy who turns out, not surprisingly, to be a cad). Her parents, very progressive, try to talk her into having an abortion, but Miranda is dead-set against it. She ultimately gives in and then so resents her parents that she runs away and pretends to still be pregnant. She is taken in by a group of kindhearted squatters in London, who support her. One flatmate is very suspicious of Miranda and sets a plot in motion that will lead to the truth coming out. In the meantime, Miranda grows increasingly desperate - and a baby in its stroller disappears from a London street. Book. Seller Inventory # 015925
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With no crying: A novel
Seller: Books & Books, Miami, FL, U.S.A.
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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardcover in very good condition with a mylar wrapped dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 1701
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With No Crying.
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Victor Gollancz, London 1980, 1980
ISBN 10: 0575028491
ISBN 13: 9780575028494
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Seller: ROBIN SUMMERS BOOKS LTD, Aldeburgh, United Kingdom
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Condition: Very Good. First edition. Hardback. Signed presentation from the author. Octavo. 157pp. Original red boards with gilt spine titles. Light bump to foot of spine, otherwise very good indeed in a very good dust jacket with large section of front flap clipped. Seller Inventory # C218289
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With No Crying by Celia Fremlin (First Edition) Gollancz File copy
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Gollancz, London and Boston, 1980
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. With No Crying by Celia Fremlin (First Edition) Gollancz File copy A tight bright unread copy with sharp corners. No markings or stamps. A sharp bright yellow jacket. A very small dust-rubbed spot to spine. "80" penned to back corner. Brodart cover. Publisher's Archive Copy. First printing. BOOK. Seller Inventory # HCX9824-2