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Monica Dickens Books In Order

Follyfoot Books In Order

  1. Cobbler’s Dream (1963)
  2. Follyfoot (1971)
  3. Dora At Follyfoot (1972)
  4. The Horses of Follyfoot (1975)
  5. Stranger At Follyfoot (1976)

World’s End Books In Order

  1. The House At World’s End (1970)
  2. Summer At World’s End (1971)
  3. World’s End in Winter (1972)
  4. Spring Comes to World’s End (1973)

Messenger Books In Order

  1. The Messenger (1985)
  2. The Ballad of Favour (1985)
  3. Cry of a Seagull (1986)
  4. The Haunting of Bellamy 4 (1986)

Novels

  1. Mariana (1940)
  2. The Fancy (1943)
  3. Thursday Afternoons (1945)
  4. The Happy Prisoner (1946)
  5. Joy and Josephine (1948)
  6. Flowers On The Grass (1949)
  7. No More Meadows (1953)
  8. The Winds of Heaven (1955)
  9. The Angel in the Corner (1956)
  10. Man Overboard (1958)
  11. The Heart of London (1961)
  12. Kate & Emma (1964)
  13. The Room Upstairs (1966)
  14. The Land Lord’s Daughter (1968)
  15. The Listeners (1970)
  16. The Great Escape (1971)
  17. The Great Fire (1973)
  18. Last Year When I Was Young (1974)
  19. Dear Doctor Lily (1988)
  20. Enchantment (1989)
  21. Closed At Dusk (1990)
  22. Scarred (1991)
  23. One of the Family (1993)

Collections

  1. Selected Works (1978)
  2. Nursing Stories (1979)
  3. Horse and Pony Stories (1986)

Non fiction

  1. One Pair Of Hands (1937)
  2. One Pair of Feet (1942)
  3. My Turn to Make the Tea (1951)
  4. Talking of Horses (1973)
  5. An Open Book (1978)
  6. Is Anyone There? (1978)
  7. View from the Seesaw (1986)
  8. Befriending (1996)
  9. Chronicle of a Working Life (2004)

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Monica Dickens Books Overview

Cobbler’s Dream

Cobbler’s Dream, once a brilliant showjumper but now nearly blinded by a vicious child, is saved from the knacker’s yard by Paul, and taken to a rest home for horses. The farm is filled with other horses who have been saved from a similar fate, and the book relates their sad stories.

Follyfoot

Follyfoot Farm is a retirement home for old or unwanted horses, invariably horses rescued from a cruel fate or cruel owners. It’s run by the Colonel who is helped by his stepdaughter, Callie, and two stable hands, Dora and Steve. These three youngsters have plenty to do at the stables, but can always find time to get involved in the mysteries and adventures that abound at Follyfoot.

Dora At Follyfoot

A story featuring the characters who first appeared in ‘Follyfoot’. With the Colonel away, Dora and Steve are left in charge of Follyfoot Farm. When Dora decides to buy Amigo, an old lame horse, everyone at the farm helps her to win the Moonlight Pony Steeplechase and pay back the money.

The Horses of Follyfoot

A story featuring the characters who first appeared in ‘Follyfoot’. Dora is invited to America by the Colonel’s friend, and returns to Follyfoot Farm with Robin, a beautiful bay horse. But suddenly one of the other horses on the farm falls ill. Did Robin bring the disease from America?

Stranger At Follyfoot

A story featuring the characters who first appeared in ‘Follyfoot’. As usual, all the stables at Follyfoot Farm are full, but when a mysterious girl named Yaz and her pony arrive looking for shelter, the staff can’t turn her away. Yaz doesn’t seem grateful, and is clearly hiding from something.

World’s End in Winter

Father and Mother join the four children for an unusual winter at the country cottage called World’s End.

Mariana

Funny and poignant…
. This book is written with verve and exuberance. The Sunday TelegraphMonica Dickens, the great granddaughter of Charles Dickens, published Mariana in 1940 when she was only twenty four years old. A bestseller in its time, Mariana is the often comical story of a typical English girl growing up in the 1930s.A lively young woman who has no idea what to do with her life, Mary is often at loose but happy ends: going to school and vacationing in Kensington; a hilarious failed attempt at drama school; a year in Paris learning dressmaking and getting engaged to the wrong man; and finally her romance with the right man. They nearly all had short hair. She wondered whether they had gone through these pangs before they bobbed it, or whether their husbands had laughingly clapped a basin over their heads one fine Putney day and run a pair of scissors round as casually as they would trim a garden hedge. Monica Dickens was born in London in 1915. Her father was Henry Charles Dickens, the eighth son of Charles Dickens. She was an active humanitarian and is the author of numerous novels and children’s books. Despite her privileged upbringing, Dickens volunteered in the service and worked in an aircraft factory repairing Spitfire fighters. This, and her work as a cook and servant, informed much of her writing.

Kate & Emma

Monica Dickens’s novel opens in a Juvenile court in London. One of the young offenders is a sixteen year old girl, Kate, who is described as being in need of care and protection. In the court is a girl only slightly older, Emma, daughter of the magistrate. From her experience of going around with a social worker on his calls she knows that adolescents and, more important, small children are daily subjected to neglect and brutality and that ‘care and protection’ cannot be prescribed like National Health aspirin. She meets Kate again, by chance, in her Uncle’s supermarket where she is learning the business from the bottom up. And between these two girls, from different backgrounds, with very different parents who have different personal problems, there springs up a friendship which is deep and, for a while at any rate, beyond misunderstanding. Each girl has her way to make in life, each has her love, hate, despair and hope, each the complications of parental control sapped by the inner knowledge of marriages that no longer work.

The Great Fire

Orphaned by the Great Plague of 1665, twelve year old Peter builds a new life only to have it shattered again by London’s Great Fire.

Closed At Dusk

The Sanctuary is a big country house whose beautiful old gardens are open to the public. Here William and Dorothy Taylor entertain family and guests. What is the strange scent of deathbed lilies that terrifies Dorothy? Mystery and hatred have invaded the Sanctuary.

Scarred

Mark Emerson is a unsuccessful businessman in what he believes is a happy relationship. When he loses his job and his love affair begins to crumble, he comes to blame all his troubles on the facial scar he acquired in a drunken teenage car crash. He turns to Peter Freeman, a plastic surgeon.

One of the Family

Edwardian London is the colourful backdrop to this portrait of a large, middle class family and the stranger who charms them all, but who is to darken their lives with tragedy. At the centre of the family is Leonard Morley, proud of his house in Chepstow Villas and of his job at Whiteley’s.

Befriending

This book relates the founding in America, and evaluates the effectiveness of, a branch of the worldwide organization of volunteers known as the Samaritans, committed to the prevention of suicide through the simple means of listening therapy. Great granddaughter of Charles Dickens, Monica Dickens was best known in England as a novelist; in America, as the founder of the U.S. Samaritans. Today Samaritans are in every large city of the country. Volunteers work twenty four hours a day, answering telephones or meeting troubled people, to try to give them, in nonjudgmental ways, the help they need to get their lives back in order.

Chronicle of a Working Life

Chronicle of a Working Life is an omnibus of three classic books by Charles Dickens’s great granddaughter, Monica Dickens. Amusing, revealing and witty One Pair of Hands, One Pair of Feet, and My Turn to Make the Tea give a wonderful evocation of the post war years of the twenties and thirties. ‘Surely,’ I thought, ‘there’s something more to life than just going to parties that one doesn’t enjoy, with people one doesn’t even like?’ So begins Monica Dickens’s first career move as, bored of being a debutante, she is let loose on series of unsuspecting upper class employers as a cook general in One Pair of Hands. Cooking, cleaning and telling all in this deliciously funny memoir, written at the age of twenty two, this was her first book. One Pair of Feet continues her adventures when she recounts her first, and only, year of training to be a nurse, and My Turn to Make the Tea completes the trilogy by telling of her time as a very junior, very enthusiastic reporter on a local newspaper.

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