Monica Dickens: 31 books

Dopo le esilaranti avventure come cameriera (Su e giù per le scale) e poi come infermiera (Su e giù per le corsie), Monica Dickens conclude la sua trilogia “lavorativa” narrando le esperienze di apprendista reporter in un piccolo giornale di provincia, tra articoli su processi strampalati, feste...

Quando gli effetti della Seconda guerra mondiale arrivano a Londra, Monica Dickens decide di dare una svolta alla sua vita, lasciando il lavoro di cameriera nelle case signorili dell’upperclass inglese per iscriversi a un corso da infermiera in un ospedale dell'Hertfordshire. Vivace e intelligente...

Pronipote di Charles Dickens, cacciata da un’esclusiva scuola femminile e decisamente insofferente verso i balli delle debuttanti, Monica Dickens decise che era arrivato il momento di entrare nella vita vera. Rispolverò un corso di cucina francese e si fece assumere come cuoca, salutando la propria...

Monica Dickens's novel, first published in 1965, opens in a Juvenile court in London. One of the young offenders is a sixteen-year-old girl, Kate, who is described as being in need of care and protection. In the court is a girl only slightly older, Emma, daughter of the magistrate. From her experience...

It isn't easy being born during The Great War. A young mother, desperate and alone, leaves her newborn on a church doorstep, whilst another dies in childbirth surrounded by wealth and family. Both baby girls are brought to the children's home, one to be adopted, and one to be looked after until her...

Rose Wood is almost thirteen and and lives in the Wood Briar Hotel, a cosy country guest house near the sea, which she helps run with her parents. But Rose, although favourite with all the guests and loved by her parents, feels very ordinary: she is clumsy and no matter how hard she tries, she can...

Since the beginning of time, Favour, the mystical horse, had been coming to earth to rescue the victims of evil and injustice, using living people as messengers to carry out his work. People like Rose, at this special age when anything is possible. With the horse, she can transcend time and space...

What drives you to be a Samaritan? Is it the need to help others, or are you responding to a damaged part of yourself? The Listeners follows the stories of those in need, and those that answer their calls. Billie, drinking away her loneliness, dials the Samaritan number expecting little from a bunch...

It is the end of WW II and the household of Mrs. North, a well-to-do widow with a country cottage, is very busy. War circumstances brought both of her daughters home: loud but good-hearted tomboy, Violet, and highly-strung and over sensitive Heather with her two small children. Mrs. North is also...

Lieutenant-Commander, the hero of this novel, is axed from the Navy at the age of thirty-six, one of many thousands obliged to re-plan their lives as the result of cuts in the armed services. A widower with a small daughter, he has no experience or knowledge outside submarines and the Royal Navy. His...

Ever since they built the road through her family's farm, separating the big yellow house from the pastures of Sybil's youth, nothing has been the same. At least the house remains, full of her memories, which wander through the rooms like ghosts. When Jess moves to America to marry Laurie in...

'Times are changed with him who marries; there are no more bypath meadows where you may innocently linger, but the road lies long and straight and dusty to the grave.' So wrote Robert Louis Stevenson. Christine feels bound to agree. 'My wife can do anything,' Vinson says. Struggling to comply with...

La guerra è finita ma niente è ancora tornato alla normalità per Oliver North. In convalescenza per l’amputazione di una gamba, il giovane reduce è prigioniero nel suo letto, sistemato nella stanza principale della casa, da cui osserva il viavai dei membri della sua complicata famiglia. Le sorelle,...

Londra, anni Cinquanta. Louise ha un matrimonio insoddisfacente e tre figlie ormai adulte con cui ha sempre avuto dei rapporti un po' distanti. Muore il marito e per un attimo a Louise si apre la prospettiva di una vita finalmente sua, piena delle cose che non ha mai potuto fare. Ma ben presto scopre...