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Men at Work
A hilarious read, concerning successful but broke novelist Tom, his spendthrift but vivacious wife Delilah and his powerful author friend, Monty. Tom achieves his dream of converting a mill in the village of his boyhood to a beautiful house with study for his writing, but will he ever write another novel in the mayhem created by his wife and friends? Laugh out loud funny.
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Published January 1, 1966
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Honor Tracy
34 books3 followersHonor 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 End of Evening (1972), and The Ballad of Castle Reef (1979). Her best-known travel book is Winter in Castille (1973).
She settled in Achill Island, Co. Mayo, Ireland and died in 1989 in Oxford, England.
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 End of Evening (1972), and The Ballad of Castle Reef (1979). Her best-known travel book is Winter in Castille (1973).
She settled in Achill Island, Co. Mayo, Ireland and died in 1989 in Oxford, England.
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November 28, 2017
Well written and pacy, very strongly-drawn characters, hilarious.
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