DUNCAN, Jane - My Friend Muriel - [My Friends # 2] - (Hardcover)

Sadly this old favourite is in a poor condition - Very difficult to find in any state - Orange boards, silver lettering, spine faded - Still well bound and readable - They were all the rage inthe 60s and often reprinted.   >>>   Janet Sandison made her bow in My Friends the Miss Boyds, Jane Duncan's sparkling first novel.  Here she is again, now a determined young woman of twenty with a University degree.  Taking a job with a cranky Pen-Friend organization, she meets Muriel.  Muriel is uncompromisingly plain, but clings like ivy.  As the lively narrative unfolds, Muriel's story and Janet's diverge and interlace again, aided by a blushing curate, an eccentric she-dragon and her severely repressed husband, by a shady confidence trickster and a suit of armour!  (Goodreads)   >>>   Though she enjoyed writing all her life, Duncan did not seek publication until her husband's serious illness. Still in Jamaica, in need of money and facing the prospect of widowhood, she submitted a novel to an agent in London, and, when it was accepted, revealed that she had completed six further manuscripts. They became the first volumes in the 'My Friends' series, which eventually comprised 19 titles. 'My Friends the Miss Boyds [1959], was an immediate success.    *Biographical Fiction * 

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