A far cry from Kensington
Women editors
Literature publishing
Satire
Publishers and publishing
Widows
Englisch
London (england), fiction
Roman
England, fiction
New York Times reviewed
Fiction, general
Large type books
Fiction
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 …
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