A far cry from Kensington
About this book
Set in 1954, this is a tale narrated by one Mrs Agnes Hawkins, a plump, forthright and no-nonsense young war widow. Nancy (as she is called) is the calm at the center of the perennial storm in the offices of a struggling London publishing house in the difficult years after WWII. At work and at her seedy boarding house she is involved with a cast of characters ranging from the charmingly useless to the downright unhinged; included an author she rejects and who tries to revenge himself through a quack science known as "radionics" (use of radio waves to influence health).
Subjects
- audio adult: books on tape
- england, fiction
- englisch
- fiction
- fiction, general
- large type books
- literature publishing
- london (england), fiction
- new york times reviewed
- publishers and publishing
- roman
- satire
- unabridged audio - fiction/general
- widows
- women editors