My Friend Muriel (My Friends)
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (521 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1447298152 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 196 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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"I love this series and this book is one of my" according to Amazon Customer. I love this series and this book is one of my favorites. Why one star? Because the ebook edition from Bello is abridged. Severely abridged. I was so happy to see the Friends books available as ebooks, now I'm feeling very wary about them.. Nicki Thomas said My Friend Muriel. I have read all of the 'My Friend' series by Jane Duncan many times, and the titles are appropriate because the books do make you feel as though you are making and finding out about new friends. The author is the best I have ever come across at putting over the personalities, feelings and motivations of the book's characters. I think the whole series is wonderful but I would put this as (just!) my favorite as it details how the 'writer' meets and falls in love with her future husband. This do. "Searching for Jane Duncan" according to Marina J. Smit. This reaction is especially meant for Nicky Thomas who wrote the review on "My friend Muriel". Just like Nicky (male or female?) did I read the books of the 'My friends" series over and over again. They give me great joy, the characters are so alive and also the humour she uses to describe situations is wonderful. But she is also capable to touch me and sometimes makes me cry (My friend my father). I have become very curious about her and would like to know more about her and her life. Can an
Muriel is a splendid creation Daily Telegraph Beautifully written, full of moving and funny incidents and highly entertaining John O'London's
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!. Taking a job with a cranky Pen-Friend organization, she meets Muriel. Muriel is uncompromisingly plain, but clings like ivy. 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
Born in Scotland in 1910, Jane Duncan spent her childhood in Glasgow, going for holidays to the Black Isle of Inverness. Jane Duncan died in 1976. Shortly after he husband's death, she returned to Jemimaville near Cromarty, not far from her grandparents' croft which inspired the beloved 'Reachfar'. . After taking her degree at Glasgow University she moved to England in 1931, and when war broke out she was commissioned in the WAAF and worked in Photographic In