LIBROS DEL AUTOR: melanie wyllie

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  • Except in Spring
    Melanie Wyllie
    It is 1950, just five years after the end of the Second World War, and ordinary people are still trying to pick up the pieces of their broken lives. London is a changed place, struggling on despite the destruction wrought by relentless bombing and now the seemingly endless privations of rationing. Only in such circumstances could two women from completely different walks of lif...
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    18,46 €

  • The Lilac Bowl
    Melanie Wyllie
    The Lilac Bowl, Melanie Wyllie’s third collection of short stories, is set in post-war Britain as it moves out of drab austerity into a new era of cosmopolitan affluence. With characteristic wit, imagination and empathy, Melanie Wyllie depicts a set of characters as diverse as the range of situations in which they find themselves. Some are caught up in the pursuit of better thi...
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    13,68 €

  • Safer Under the Stairs
    Melanie Wyllie
    Although not directly autobiographical, these stories are inspired by the author’s own experience and that of her generation during the Second World War and in the years that followed. In this thematically linked collection, the stand-out story is ‘What Dreams May Come’ where Cecile, haunted by her childhood memories of the Nazi Occupation of France, returns to her village for ...
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    12,76 €

  • Proceed With Caution
    Melanie Wyllie
    Following on from Safer Under the Stairs, Melanie Wyllie’s acclaimed first volume of short stories published in 2014, Proceed with Caution features six new stories set in Britain, Europe and America spanning three decades from the end of the Second World War. In her signature cinematic/poetic style, Melanie Wyllie brings the lives of ordinary people into dramatic relief, from p...
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    16,49 €