Background
Born in Neptune, New Jersey, Freely grew up in Turkey and now lives in England, where she lectures at the University of Warwick and is an occasional contributor to The Guardian and The Independent newspapers.
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Istanbul: Memories and the City
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The Other Rebecca
(The future Mrs Midwinter was apprehensive of her new home...)
The future Mrs Midwinter was apprehensive of her new home because of the haunting accuracy with which her predecessor Rebecca had described it in her book "The Marriage Hearse". Maureen Freely is the author of "Mother's Helper", "The Life of the Party" and "The Stork Club".
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The Parent Trap: Children, Families and the New Morality
(Until very recently, the ideal parent was invisible. But ...)
Until very recently, the ideal parent was invisible. But suddenly everybody - political parties, pressure groups, educationalists and the media - particularly the media - is interested in "the parent question": how do we make good parents? But who defines "good" anyway? Can there be a consensus on parenting? And why has a vague national anxiety become a moral panic? This book explores the debate.
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The Stork Club
(Mike and Laura are an ordinary couple who are in love. Bu...)
Mike and Laura are an ordinary couple who are in love. But things start to go awry following the birth of their first child, when they become prey to an insidious Californian public menace - the Stork Club - a group of professional mothers, whose power becomes irresistible.
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Maureen Freely
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Harvard University.
Career
She has worked on the Warwick Writing Programme since 1996. She is the current president of English Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, the founding centre of Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association International. Among her novels is The Life of the Party, set in Turkey.
She has also written The Other Rebecca, a contemporary version of Daphne du Maurier"s classic novel Rebecca.
Freely is also an occasional contributor to Cornucopia. A magazine about Turkey.
She is best known as the Turkish-into-English translator of Orhan Pamuk"s recent novels. She works closely with Pamuk on these translations, because they often serve as the basis when his work is translated into other languages.
They were both educated simultaneously at Robert College in Istanbul, although they did not know each other at the time.
Freely translated and wrote an introduction to Fethiye Çetin"s memoir. She is the daughter of author John Freely, and has a brother, Brendan. Maureen Freely is the mother of four children and two step children.
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The Other Rebecca
(The future Mrs Midwinter was apprehensive of her new home...)
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The Stork Club
(Mike and Laura are an ordinary couple who are in love. Bu...)
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The Parent Trap: Children, Families and the New Morality
(Until very recently, the ideal parent was invisible. But ...)
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Istanbul: Memories and the City
(Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include compa...)
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The Other Rebecca
