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the Queen of Romance

Liz Jones author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Honno Welsh Women's Press

Published:6th May '21

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The first biography of the bestselling author and journalist Marguerite Jervis takes a closer look at the woman who in her heyday sold hundreds of thousands of novels and wrote the script for Hitchcock's directorial debut.

Liz Jones has dug deep beneath the tale told in Marguerite Jervis's own somewhat romanticised memoir to reveal what made this driven and determined woman. And what turned her from a spoilt child of the English middle classes to a workaholic who could turn her hand to any literary endeavour and who became a runaway popular success during the most turbulent years of the 20th century. -- Honno

ISBN: 9781912905119

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

256 pages