Margaret Kennedy
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Margaret Kennedy (1896–1967) found popular acclaim before the age of thirty with her 1924 novel The Constant Nymph. It sold copies in the millions and spawned no fewer than three screen adaptations. One of the most successful and prolific British novelists of the twentieth century, she also produced literary criticism, plays, screenplays, and a biography of Jane Austen.
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Margaret Kennedy
“The perfect seaside holiday read. We’re in Cornwall in 1947, where a landslide has buried a hotel, fatally crushing guests in the rubble . . . The nail-biting tension to discover who actually survived the tragedy will keep you on the very edge of your deckchair.” —Val Hennessy, The Daily Mail
A hilarious and ingenious upstairs-downstairs tragicomedy from postwar England, set at a doomed seaside resort.