Honor Tracy

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Honor Tracy


Born
in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, The United Kingdom
October 19, 1913

Died
June 13, 1989


Honor Tracy is the pseudonym of Lilbush Wingfield, who was a British writer, born at Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk.

Tracy joined the British Women's Auxiliary Air Force from 1939 to 1941, working in the intelligence département, then she was attached to the British Ministry of Information during the Second World War, from 1941 to 1945, as a Japanese specialist. She worked for The Observer newspaper as a columnist and as a long-time foreign correspondent. She wrote also for The Sunday Times and for the British Broadcasting Corporation. Tracy is best known as a travel writer. Her novels satirize British-Irish relations and Ireland itself with wit and occasionally bitterness. Her best-known novels are The Straight and Narrow Path (1956), The Quiet
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Average rating: 3.56 · 117 ratings · 21 reviews · 34 distinct works
The Straight and Narrow Path

3.80 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1956 — 15 editions
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The First Day of Friday

3.75 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1963 — 7 editions
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Silk Hats and No Breakfast

3.36 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1957 — 9 editions
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The Ballad of Castle Reef

3.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1979 — 3 editions
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The Quiet End of Evening

3.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1972 — 3 editions
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Mind You, I've Said Nothing...

3.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1953 — 8 editions
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Winter in Castille

3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1974 — 2 editions
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In a Year of Grace

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The heart of England

3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1983 — 2 editions
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The prospects are pleasing

3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1973 — 5 editions
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“A student undergoing a word-association test was asked why a snowstorm put him in mind of sex. He replied frankly: "because everything does.”
Honor Tracy