Publisher: | London.: The Bodley Head. | Edition: | First Edition; Published Date: 1949 | Dimensions: | 190 x 130 mm (7 x 5 inches) - 208pp. | Appearance: | Green hardback cloth cover. | Condition: | G : in good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed. Spine faded. Contents clean and tight |
Christianna Brand was born in 1907 in Malaya but spent most of her childhood in England and India. She had a number of different occupations, including model, dancer, shop assistant and governess. Brand also wrote under the pseudonyms Mary Ann Ashe, Annabel Jones, Mary Brand, Mary Roland, and China Thompson. Christianna Brand served as chair of the Crime Writers' Association from 1972 to 1973.
She is the author of the children's series Nurse Matilda, which Emma Thompson adapted to film as Nanny McPhee (2005). Her Inspector Cockrill short stories and a previously unpublished Cockrill stage play were collected as The Spotted Cat and Other Mysteries from Inspector Cockrill's Casebook, edited by Tony Medawar (2002). She was the cousin of the illustrator Edward Ardizzone.
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