Penguin Books Ltd-Michael Joseph

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...

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After distributing the eight ice-creams - they were the largest vanilla, chocolate, and raspberry super-bumpers, each in yellow, brown, and almost purple stripes - Pop Larkin climbed up into the cab of the gentian blue, home-painted thirty-hundredweight truck, laughing happily. 'Perfick wewer!...