Joy Packer: Four Books for just R200! All hardcovers with dust jackets.

Four Books by South African Author Joy Packer

Joy Packer was born and educated in Cape Town, graduating as a journalist from the University of Cape Town. She worked initially as a freelance journalist, in 1931 becoming a reporter for the Daily Express in London. After this she spent time on radio in Hong Kong, as well as a stint writing for British publications in the Balkans. World War II saw her as a broadcaster to South Africa for the BBC, then working in the Ministry of Information in Egypt, as well as at Allied Headquarters in Italy. Joy first made her name through three volumes of memoirs published from 1945 to 1953 about her travels throughout the world with her husband, Admiral (later Sir) Herbert Packer of the British Royal Navy. In the 1950s, she began publishing novels, starting with Valley of the Vines in 1955, which sold more than 600 000 copies in English, and was translated into at least nine European languages. Although her novels' principal themes were romantic, they were also important for their sociopolitical commentary on South Africa at the time. Her second novel, Nor the Moon by Night, was made into a British film of the same name. The book which really touched the hearts of women during World War II was Grey Mistress, the name war-time naval wives gave to the ship which was the other woman in the lives of their husbands.

GREY MISTRESS. First edition 1949, published by Eyre & Spottiswoode, London. 335 pp. 

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