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Valerie Helene Mendes ( née Barnett, born October 1939) is an English novelist and poet. Mendes is best known for her teenage fiction novels, Girl in the Attic, Coming of Age, Lost and Found and The Drowning, and for her historical novels for adults: Larkswood, Daddy’s Girl and Beatrice and Alexander. In 2021, Mendes published Not Only But ...
Her imprint, VMBooks, has published her new historical novels, Daddy’s Girl and Beatrice and Alexander, her Memoir, Not Only But Also, and her collected poems, The Gathering. Flight of the Lark, the long-awaited sequel to Valerie’s best-selling historical novel, Larkswood, will be published by VMBooks in 2024.
Flight of the Lark, the sequel to Valerie Mendes’. best-selling Larkswood, reunites us with the Hamilton family. at the immediate outbreak of the Second World War. Louisa plans to train as a nurse in Edward’s brand new hospital. Thomas longs to grow wings as a fighter pilot with the RAF.
Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Children's. edit data. Valerie Mendes started writing when she was six. Seventy years later, she looks half her age, feels twenty-one – and is still obsessed with telling a good story.
Jan 1, 2014 · Valerie Mendes. 3.53. 933 ratings144 reviews. In the tradition of THE FORSYTE SAGA, a sweeping historical novel that spans three generations, telling the dark secrets of a family torn apart. Larkswood House. The very name suggests birdsong, peace and elegance.
Larkswood. Larkswood House is home to the Hamilton children – Edward, Cynthia and Harriet – who enjoy the freedom and excitement of privilege. But in the glorious English summer of 1896, with absent parents and a departed governess, disaster strikes the family, leaving it cruelly divided.
Valerie Mendes has 24 books on Goodreads with 3289 ratings. Valerie Mendes’s most popular book is Larkswood.
