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The Dodie Smith set brings together three fantastic stories from the author of I Capture the Castle and 101 Dalmations. Set against the backdrop of a London theatre world, It Ends with Revelations is an unconventional love story in which loyalty may prove more important than love. The Town in Bloom finds a young Lancashire girl arrive in London intent on a stage career, although she has to make do with a role as theatre secretary. When she does have the chance to act, she makes an unforgettable impression...

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Dodie Smith was born in 1896. While working as a shop assistant in London, she wrote five very successful plays and also started writing screenplays for Hollywood. She moved to America with her husband during the war and they didn't return to England until 1953 because she was reluctant to quarantine her beloved Dalmatians! In 1943, her Dalmatians had 15 puppies, like Pongo and Missis in The Hundred and One Dalmatians, which was written in 1956 and then made into a hugely successful Disney film....

About this book Dodie Smith, well-known for The Hundred and One Dalmatians, created a classic coming-of-age novel with I Capture the Castle. The Mortmains are a quirky and eccentric family, living in a crumbling castle with very little income. Seventeen-year-old Cassandra and her beautiful sister Rose have dreams and ambitions which seem fraught with difficulty as money is short and their irascible father is suffering from terrible writer's block. But when rich American neighbours turn up, the family...

I Capture the Castle (Red Fox Older Fiction) by Dodie Smith (Author) Format: Paperback (415 pages) Edition: New edition ISBN 10: 0099845008 ISBN 13: 9780099845003 Publisher: Red Fox Published: 04 Jan 2001 9 in stock Item Condition: Used - Good Price:£2.59List Price: £7.99You Save:£5.40 (68%) Quantity: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Add to wishlist Or buy from Amazon.co.uk Other Formats and Conditions Format Used Price New Price Paperback £2.59 -- Paperback £2.59 £6.94 Paperback --...

description | reviews | contents | It can be hard to know what to talk about with a bereaved person over a period of time once you have offered your condolences. This book shows how, by using good active listening skills, empathic exploration and a willingness to talk about the hard issues, you can embark on a process of sensitive conversation that helps the bereaved person to come to terms with their grief. Dodie Graves outlines a practical framework of six elements for conversing with bereaved...

Two dalmatians go in search of their puppies stolen by the sublimely evil Cruella De Vil. The story needs no introduction and the book is better than both the films it gave birth to. (7 yrs +) (Kirkus UK)

Dodie Smith was born in Manchester in 1896. Aged 17 she set off for London, determined to become an actress, but she struggled to find work, living off baked beans in freezing hostels. While working at the famous Heals department store, Dodie turned to writing plays instead, and her first was an overnight sensation - the newspapers excitedly declared 'Shopgirl Turns Playwright!'. During the war she moved to Hollywood with her husband, and it was there, spurned on by regret and homesickness for the...

ISBN: 0099240602 1984 Sparrow Books reprint edition "Pam and Tom are orphaned twins who live happily with their grandmother in the country. When they are on half-term holiday, their grandmother suggests they put out a saucer of milk for the hedgehogs she has seen in the orchard. But the twins find that it is not only the hedgehogs who enjoy the milk. On the stroke of midnight, a group of magical kittens appear to drink the milk and then vanish into thin air..." Condition: Good - Light creasing to...

Cassandra Mortmain lives with her impoverished family in a crumbling castle. Her journal records her life with her bored sister Rose, her stepmother Topaz, her little brother Thomas and her novelist father who suffers from a financially crippling writer's block. However, all their lives are turned upside down when American heirs to castle arrive.

A determined Lancashire girl arrives in London intent on becoming an actress – from the author of I Capture the Castle, this is a beguiling, candid novel about coming of age and the healing effects of time. As Mouse bluffs and charms her way into the engrossing affairs of the Crossway Theatre she meets handsome actor-manager Rex and young stage director Brice. When, with her close friends Molly and Lillian, she shelters from a storm, the three girls meet rich, enigmatic Zelle, and this leads to a...

Description: First edition, first printing. Recently and luxuriously bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full [white] morocco with different sized black spots simulating the coat of a dalmatian. The title is stamped in gilt on the spine. The contents are entirely complete with the original pictorial endpapers present to both the front and rear. The pages are clean and bright and there are no inscriptions or stamps. All edges gilt. Housed in a purpose made black cloth slipcase. A stunning and highly original...

description | reviews | contents | Those who have been bereaved are in need of support, and groupwork is an effective way in which people can come together and support each other in a trusted environment. This book provides a practical introduction to setting up and facilitating bereavement support groups, giving facilitators the confidence to run a group. It guides the reader through all the stages of setting up a group, and examines different types of facilitation and the skills needed. Case studies...

Dodie Smith was born in Manchester in 1896. Aged 17 she set off for London, determined to become an actress, but she struggled to find work, living off baked beans in freezing hostels. While working at the famous Heals department store, Dodie turned to writing plays instead, and her first was an overnight sensation - the newspapers excitedly declared 'Shopgirl Turns Playwright!'. During the war she moved to Hollywood with her husband, and it was there, spurned on by regret and homesickness for the...

Dodie Bellamy has written a novel, The Letters of Mina Harker (2004); a collection of fiction, memoirs, and essays, Pink Steam (2004); an epistolary collaboration on AIDS with the late Sam D’Allesandro, Real (1994); and a cross-genre collection of pedagogical essays and fictions, Academonia (2006). She lives in San Francisco.

Dodie Smith Collection 3 Books Set RRP: £ 23.97 Brand New Titles in This Set It Ends With Revelations The New Moon With the Old The Town in Bloom Description title by title: It Ends With Revelations During a summer festival in an English spa town Miles Quentin, a distinguished actor, and his devoted wife become friendly with the local MP Geoffrey Thornton, and his young daughters Robin and Kit. All of these attractive, intelligent and busy people seem untroubled at first. But the surface of their...

Dodie Smith Collection It Ends With Revelations During a summer festival in an English spa town Miles Quentin, a distinguished actor, and his devoted wife become friendly with the local MP Geoffrey Thornton, and his young daughters Robin and Kit. All of these attractive, intelligent and busy people seem untroubled at first. But the surface of their lives conceals problems which start to come to light after the Quentin's return to their London theatre world and the Thornton's to their Westminster...

A book for anyone who is young, poor, fed up and yearning for something exciting to happen Irish Times Unputdownable and loved by teenagers and adults everywhere. Observer Everyone I've passed it on to has found it a hit - it works every time, for absolutely everybody -- Nigella Lawson So what makes these different to any other set of classics? In a moment of inspiration Random House had the bright idea of actually asking Key stage 2 children what extra ingredients they could add to make children...

From the author of I Capture the Castle and The Hundred and One Dalmatians, here comes an unusual adventure in which humour and more than a touch of strangeness are inextricably blended. When Jane Minton arrives at Dome House as a secretary-housekeeper, she finds herself sharing the comfortable country home of four attractive young people. Their charming widower father, Rupert Carrington is too occupied with his London business to see very much of them. Richard, the eldest, is a composer; Clare,...

Tall 8vo. Original blue cloth lettered in silver, preserved in black pictorial dustwrapper ; pp. [viii] + 119; strikingly illustrated in bold black and white; a fine copy in a very nice, unclipped, dustwrapper, with a little light rucking along top edge of upper panel.

Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in white morocco, with black onlay patches (imitating a Dalmatian’s colouring), title to spine gilt, original pictorial endpaper at front and plain black endpapers at the back, gilt edges. Housed in a black leather entry slip case.

A determined young Lancashire girl arrives in London intent on a stage career - this tale from the author of I Capture the Castle is told with the candour and authenticity that derives from Dodie Smith's own experience of the theatre world. Mouse never did fully suit her nickname. Tiny she may have been, but timid never. After less than twenty-four hours in London she had bluffed her way into an audition at a famous theatre, infuriated its forceful young stage director, and amused its kind if quite...