Preface Writers

Max Arthur Operation Heartbreak

Diana Athill Midsummer Night in the Workhouse

Juliet Aykroyd Family Roundabout

Christopher Beauman On the Other Side

Julian Barnes Amours de Voyage

Nina Bawden Someone at a Distance

Cary Bazalgette The Casino

Nicola Beauman William an Englishman, Consequences

Sally Beauman Flush

Hilda Bernstein The World that was Ours

Elizabeth Berridge Tell It to a Stranger

Fiona Bevan Miss Buncle Married

Rachel Billington Making Conversation

Neville Braybrook Every Eye

Celia Brayfield They Were Sisters

Julia Briggs There Were No Windows

Jane Brocket High Wages

AS Byatt The Winds of Heaven

David Conville The Priory

Rebecca Cohen Greenery Street

Rachel Cooke Harriet

Jilly Cooper The New House

Ruth Evans On the Other Side

Adam Fergusson The Sack of Bath

Lydia Fellgett No Surrender

Penelope Fitzgerald House-Bound

Northrop Frye Hetty Dorval

Juliet Gardiner The Village, To Bed with Grand Music

Claire Gardner A Woman Novelist and Other Stories

Gretchen Gerzina The Making of a Marchioness

Laura Godwin Fidelity

Adam Gopnik A London Child of the 1870s

Lyndall Gordon The Wise Virgins, A Writer’s Diary

Ruth Gorb A House in the Country

Valerie Grove Daddy’s Gone A-Hunting

Christina Hardyment How to Run Your Home without Help

Jenny Hartley Few Eggs and No Oranges

Anne Harvey Consider the Years, The Runaway

Susan Hill The Far Cry

Eva Hoffman An Interrupted Life: The Diaries and Letters of Etty Hillesum

Jeremy Holmes Saplings

Eva Ibbotson Manja

PD James The Victorian Chaise-longue

Karen Knox The Home-Maker

Harriet Lane Mariana

Gregory LeStage Good Evening, Mrs Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes

Charles Lock Greenbanks

Terence Handley MacMath They Knew Mr Knight

Candia McWilliam Lady Rose and Mrs Memmary

Jessica Mann Doreen

Jane Miller Farewell Leicester Square

Charlotte Mitchell The Young Pretenders

Michael Moorcock The Hopkins Manuscript

Janet Morgan A New System of Domestic Cookery

Nicholas Mosley Julian Grenfell

Julia Neuberger Reuben Sachs

Frances Partridge Cheerful Weather for the Wedding

Wendy Pollard Miss Ranskill Comes Home

Dominic Power The Expendable Man

Isabel Raphael The Making of a Marchioness

Yvonne Roberts A Woman’s Place

Anne Sebba Little Boy Lost, The Shuttle

Marion Shaw The Crowded Street

Emma Smith The Far Cry

Frances Spalding The Runaway

Aline Templeton Miss Buncle’s Book

Frances Thomas Tea with Mr Rochester

Polly Toynbee Round about a Pound a Week

Henrietta Twycross-Martin Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

Judith Viorst It’s Hard to be Hip over Thirty and other Tragedies of Married Life

Merryn Williams The Mystery of Mrs Blencarrow

AN Wilson Tell It to a Stranger

Jacqueline Wilson The Children who Lived in a Barn