Background

While a child, Green"s parents moved to France, where her father, ruined by a financial crisis and poor investments, came to settle. She spent her childhood in Le Havre, before her parents moved to Paris, where her brother Julien was born.

Career

Her best known work is the 1948 With Much Love, a fictionalized account of her childhood memories. She wrote fifteen novels and several volumes of short stories, most in her native English.

Works

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  • That Fellow Perceval
  • Fools rush in,
  • A Marriage of Convenience