Black Beech and Honeydew
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| Rating | : | 4.84 (643 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0006512348 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Dame Ngaio Marsh was born in New Zealand in 1895 and died in February 1982. She wrote over 30 detective novels and many of her stories have theatrical settings, for Ngaio Marsh's real passion was the theatre. It was for this work that the received what she called her 'damery' in 1966. She was both actress and producer and almost single-handedly revived the New Zealand public's interest in the theatre
Carmen Correia said dreary. I own all the rest of Ngaio Marsh's books. This one is just rambling along about her life with people I don't know or care about. Soooo different from her excellent books. Neither my husband nor I could get interested in it at all.An interesting autobiography is Agatha Christie's.
Widely acclaimed when first published in 1965, Black Beech and Honeydew is a sensitive account of Ngaio Marsh's childhood and adolescence in Christchurch and the establishment of her theatre and writing careers both there and in the UK. Fully revised and updated in 1981, this new edition is reissued 21 years later as a commemoration of Ngaio Marsh's life and work. No one who had read and enjoyed any of Ngaio Marsh's 32 novels can afford to overlook this gifted and charming autobiography.. The new series of Ngaio Marsh editions concludes with a new edition of her autobiography. It captures all the joys, fears and hopes of a spirited young woman growing up and transmits an artist's gradual awareness of the special flavour of life in New Zealand and t
'Still, quite simply, the greatest exponent of the classical English detective story.' Daily Telegraph