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Clover Cottage
When 13-year-old Margaret's mother finds she has inherited a cottage in the country, the family go to see it and find a rather derelict and neglected house. Can the cottage be restored and will it ever be home to Margaret and her family?
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Frances Cowen
70 books6 followersBorn the daughter of Joseph and Helen Cowen, Frances Cowen was educated in Oxford at an Ursuline convent and the Milham Ford School for girls.
She married George Heinrich Munthe in 1938; he died in 1941. They had one child, a daughter, Mary.
She wrote romantic suspense novels and books for children/young adults and produced more than 50 works under her own name. She also wrote around 10 novels under the pseudonym Eleanor Hyde.
In addition to writing, she worked for Blackwell's in Oxford, England, in 1938−39; was a member of Air Raid Precautions staff in Dartmouth, Devon, during World War II, and was assistant secretary for the Royal Literary Fund in London from 1955 through to 1966.
She contributed to various anthologies, to 'Good Housekeeping', 'Woman's Weekly', 'Oxford Times', plus other periodicals and newspapers. She was also a staff member of 'Little Folks' magazine and a member of PEN International and of the Crime Writers Association.
She married George Heinrich Munthe in 1938; he died in 1941. They had one child, a daughter, Mary.
She wrote romantic suspense novels and books for children/young adults and produced more than 50 works under her own name. She also wrote around 10 novels under the pseudonym Eleanor Hyde.
In addition to writing, she worked for Blackwell's in Oxford, England, in 1938−39; was a member of Air Raid Precautions staff in Dartmouth, Devon, during World War II, and was assistant secretary for the Royal Literary Fund in London from 1955 through to 1966.
She contributed to various anthologies, to 'Good Housekeeping', 'Woman's Weekly', 'Oxford Times', plus other periodicals and newspapers. She was also a staff member of 'Little Folks' magazine and a member of PEN International and of the Crime Writers Association.
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February 6, 2017
I used this as a read-aloud for my daughter, and we both enjoyed it so much that we finished it in only two days. It is a lovely story of a family from a dreary basement apartment in town finding happiness and home in a cottage in the country that the mother finds she has inherited. Much of the book describes the restoration of the cottage, with a thatcher fixing the thatched roof, a kind homeless man helping to fix the rotten floorboards and window frames, and the mother and children doing as much polishing and cleaning as they can. There is a garden to restore and a little puppy to love. And friends and neighbors to meet and even help with some of their troubles, which brings just enough excitement to this wonderful and cozy story. And they have lots of teatimes, which makes everything feel so homey. I love 'getting a home in the country' stories like this, and I'm so glad I could share this one with my daughter!
July 5, 2024
Has lots of good fixing up cottage in English countryside content, but slightly marred for me by the fact that the cottage comes with a strange old man in residence, and by other complications of a plot nature that detract from the simple pleasures of weeding.
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