Background
Frank Tuohy was born on May 2, 1925 in Uckfield, England to Patrick Gerald and Dorothy (Annandale) Tuohy.
Frank was educated at Cambridge in English and philosophy.
Frank attended Stowe School.
(The drawing-room was entirely English. The Office of Work...)
The drawing-room was entirely English. The Office of Works had provided deep armchairs, a sofa you could have slept on, though of course nobody had ever done so, and a low glass-topped table. A young English woman arrives in the Polish People's Republic to visit her older sister, who married a Polish soldier after the war, disappearing into a life behind the Iron Curtain. This award-winning novel of the harsh cruelties and deprivations of life in Communist Poland is told with truth, wit and understanding.
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Frank Tuohy was born on May 2, 1925 in Uckfield, England to Patrick Gerald and Dorothy (Annandale) Tuohy.
Frank attended Stowe School. He was then educated at Cambridge in English and philosophy.
On completion of his studies, Frank worked in numerous academic posts under the auspices of the British Council. This included postings in Finland, Brazil and Poland.In the 1950s, in the British Council School of São Paulo, Brazil, he ran a memorable course on The War Poets (WWI),introducing Stephen Spender and his contemporaries. His posting in Poland provided his inspiration for his 1965 novel The book received considerable critical acclaim and was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
Tuohy died in Shepton Mallet, Somerset in 1999 at a time when he was working on the uncompleted manuscript for a new novel following many years of writer's block.
(The drawing-room was entirely English. The Office of Work...)