What Hetty Did or Life and Letters (Signed First Edition/First Printing)

J L Carr

ISBN 10: 0900847913 / ISBN 13: 9780900847912

Published by The Quince Tree Press, Kettering, 1988

About this Item

VG signed first edition, first printing. Looks unread. Illustration to front cover is from Joan Hassall's wood engraving 'Reflections'. Endpieces and decorations are wood engravings by Monica Poole, Edwina Ellis, Ian Stephens and Joan Hassall. The endpapers and another image are by Christopher Fiddes. Laid-in article on Carr from The Daily Telegraph.

Seller Inventory # 020003

Bibliographic Details

• Title: What Hetty Did or Life and Letters (Signed First Edition/First Printing)
• Publisher: The Quince Tree Press, Kettering
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0900847913
• ISBN 13: 9780900847912
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: Monica Poole; Edwina Ellis; Ian Stephens; Joan Hassall and Christopher Fiddes
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

A spirited sixth-former with an unlikely penchant for Keats and Browning, struggles against a brutish home life in the Fens, with a bullying father, down-trodden mother, and nasty little brother. Discovering she was in fact adopted, Hetty gratefully runs away in search of her real parents. She finds shelter in a Birmingham boarding house, where the land-lady, eccentric lodges, race riots and urban living expand her horizons.