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My American

Stella Gibbons author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:4th Aug '11

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My American cover

'Stella Gibbons's gift is very special' - Daily Express

** AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME **

'Stella Gibbons's gift is very special'
Daily Express

Amy, a neglected motherless child in 1920s London meets Robert, a wealthy American boy.

** AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME **

'Stella Gibbons's gift is very special'
Daily Express

Amy, a neglected motherless child in 1920s London meets Robert, a wealthy American boy. It's an encounter she will never forget.

My American follows the lives and loves of Amy Lee and Robert Vorst: from a chance childhood meeting to the comic, tragic and romantic trysts that follow. Amy, a baker's daughter, has dreams of becoming a writer, whilst Robert is destined to be a doctor. Later, embarking on a lecture tour in Depression-era America, she is reminded of her childhood friend and endeavours to find him.

My American is an unashamedly romantic novel by Stella Gibbons, author of the beloved satire Cold Comfort Farm.

Stella Gibbons's gift is very special * Daily Express *
Chipper is the word: Gibbons's heroines are plucky, determined and quietly hedonistic. But she can do melancholy with the best of them, too, not to mention melodrama * Guardian *
Stella Gibbonsan exception to that old canard: women can't make us laugh * Independent *
The Jane Austen of the 20th century -- Lynne Truss
Stella is stellar * Sunday Herald *

ISBN: 9780099529347

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 30mm

Weight: 330g

480 pages