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ABOUT THIS BOOK

PUBLISHER: Pan Macmillan

FORMAT: Electronic book text

ISBN: 9781509876785

RRP: £3.98

PUBLICATION DATE:
September 6, 2018

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Mothering Sunday

Noel Streatfeild

Seventy-year-old widowed Anna Caldwell likes to be alone, happy to potter around her garden chatting to her friend Miss Poe. However, the bliss of Anna’s peaceful lifestyle causes her five children much dismay.Jane, the eldest and most organised, gathers her siblings together to visit Anna on Mothering Sunday. Henry the politician, Margaret the doctor and the youngest, Felicity, all agree to attend with their partners . . . but that leaves Tony, the shadow on the family’s respectable past.Carnegie Medal winning author Noel Streatfeild pieces together a startling image of the post-war British family in her novel Mothering Sunday.

Reviews of Mothering Sunday

One of the best family novels * Glasgow Herald * Reads like a real slice out of life * The Star * She has wit and a sense of humour, and her people are all good to meet . . . a spicing of mystery is added to the most enjoyable conversation-piece — Ralph Strauss * Sunday Times *

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Noel Streatfeild

Mary Noel Streatfeild was born in Sussex in 1895. She was one of five children born to the Anglican Bishop of Lewes and found vicarage life very restricting. During World War One, Noel and her siblings volunteered in hospital kitchens and put on plays to support war charities, which is where she discovered her talent on stage. She studied at RADA to pursue a career in the theatre and after ten years as an actress turned her attention to writing adult and children’s fiction. Her experiences in the arts heavily influenced her writing, most notably her famous children’s story Ballet Shoes which won a Carnegie Medal and was awarded an OBE in 1983. Noel Streatfeild died in 1986.