Mary Hocking

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Mary Hocking


Born
in London, The United Kingdom
April 08, 1921

Died
February 17, 2014

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Born in in London in 1921, Mary was educated at Haberdashers’ Aske’s Girls School, Acton. During the Second World War she served in the Women’s Royal Naval Service (Wrens) attached to the Fleet Air Arm Meteorology branch and then briefly with the Signal Section in Plymouth.

Writing was in her blood. Juggling her work as a local government officer in Middlesex Education Department with writing, at first short stories for magazines and pieces for The Times Educational Supplement, she then had her first book, The Winter City, published in 1961.

The book was a success and enabled Mary to relinquish her full time occupation to devote her time to writing. Even so, when she came to her beloved Lewes in 1961, she still took a part-time appointment, a
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Average rating: 3.73 · 286 ratings · 79 reviews · 32 distinct works
Good Daughters

3.92 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 1984 — 9 editions
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Letters From Constance

3.68 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 1991 — 8 editions
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INDIFFERENT HEROES

3.73 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1985 — 8 editions
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Welcome Strangers

3.93 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1987 — 7 editions
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A Particular Place

3.50 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1990 — 6 editions
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The Very Dead of Winter

3.10 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1993 — 5 editions
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An Irrelevant Woman

3.29 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1988 — 5 editions
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Family circle

4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings4 editions
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A Time of war

3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1968 — 5 editions
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He who plays the king

4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1980 — 4 editions
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