My Turn to Make the Tea [antikvár]

PENGUIN BOOKS 1751 MY TURN TO MAKE THE TEA The great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens, Miss Monica Dickens was educated at St PauFs School for Girls. She has been writing novels and auto-biographical books since she was twenty-two, when she wrote One Pair of Hands about her experiences as a cook-general, the only job that her upbringing as a débutante had fitted her for. During the war Miss Dickens worked as a nurse in a hospitál and subsequently took a job in a munitions factory, turning out Spitfires. During the latter part of the war she was again working in a hospitál. 1 would like to make it clear/ she says, 'that I did not take these jobs in order to write books. The books just came out of the experiences/ After the war Miss Dickens gave up nursing to concentrate on her writing, and has published several novels, of which the latest is The Room Upstairs. Apart from her books, she writes a weekly column in a well-known woman's magaziné. She is married to Commander Roy Stratton of the U.S. Navy, and has two daughters.