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Bassett

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099529378

  • Length: 320  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 20mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 292g

  • RRP: £12.99

Bassett

The Tower Guesthouse lies nestled between the beech woods of Buckinghamshire. It is run by the unlikely partnership of balmy Miss Padsoe and young, cockney Miss Baker - divided by class and age, they are determined to dislike each other. Through their tale and the interwoven tribulations of two young lovers, Gibbons's sparkling novel explores the heart of friendship and what unites us.

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099529378

  • Length: 320  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 20mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 292g

  • RRP: £12.99

Reviews

  • "[Her] wit and sense of fun are as ready as ever"

    The Times

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About the Author

Stella Gibbons

Stella Gibbons was born in London in 1902. She went to the North London Collegiate School and studied journalism at University College, London. She then worked for ten years on various papers, including the Evening Standard. Stella Gibbons is the author of twenty-five novels, three volumes of short stories, and four volumes of poetry. Her first publication was a book of poems, The Mountain Beast (1930) and her first novel Cold Comfort Farm (1932) won the Femina Vie Heuruse Prize for 1933. Among her works are Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm (1940) Westwood (1946), Conference at Cold Comfort Farm (1959) and Starlight (1967). She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1950. In 1933 she married the actor and singer Allan Webb. They had one daughter. Stella Gibbons died in 1989.

Stella Gibbons

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