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Bingham, Charlotte Mary Therese was born on June 29, 1942 in Haywards Heath, Sussex, England. Daughter of John Michael Ward and Madeleine (Ebel) Bingham.
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"A delightful novel...pulsating with vitality and deeply felt emotions" SUNDAY EXPRESS "A perfect example of the new, darker romantic fiction...a true 24-carat love story." SUNDAY TIMES As children, George Dashwood and Amelia Dennison loved to roam the Sussex Downs and, just as their two very different families were friends, so too were they, until they are caught in a thunderstorm. Sheltering from the elements, the now mature George realizes that the way he feels about Amelia has changed. But it is 1914 and the declaration of war cuts across any romantic plans that the two might have. George is away at the front for four years, but when the miracle happens and he returns home safely, Amelia finds that the boy she loved has gone...
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(The story takes place during a London Season. Georgiana i...)
The story takes place during a London Season. Georgiana is poor, posh and very beautiful. Jennifer is rich, middle-class and rather fat. They are both, as are all their contemporaries,in search of a marriage that will enrich or ennoble them. But Belgravia is much more than a romantic Comedy. It’s a kind of cross between Vile Bodies and Love in a Cold Climate – a very funny book, full of wonderful characters, in line with all of Charlotte Bingham's works.
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(In 1963, exactly fifty years ago, an unknown author took ...)
In 1963, exactly fifty years ago, an unknown author took the book world by storm when publishing her autobiography at the tender age of nineteen. It stormed to the top of the non fiction Best Sellers list, creating a literary sensation en route and was published in twelve other countries including the USA. The teenage author embarked on a major author tour of every country that had bought her book, immediately becoming a cult figure in the global media, the wildfire publicity campaign culminating in the paparazzi hanging from the trees outside her family home, television appearances in most every country that had television and multi page spreads in all the glossies including LIFE magazine and PARIS MATCH. Being the the daughter of LORD CLANMORRIS an impoverished Irish peer who was also the notable thriller writer author JOHN BINGHAM, and MADELEINE BINGHAM the novelist and playwright, Charlotte had grown up in a literary household yet no one in her family had expected her to burst upon the literary world in such a sensational fashion at such a tender age, a debut that left many Establishment figures speechless seeing the book 'taking the lid of Society' and thus in some way as a betrayal of the author's own class and background. The book is of course nothing of the sort. What it is is hilariously funny, inocent, highly original and touching and as a result it became an icon for the young of all classes. It was in fact considered to be a work serious enough for certain Scandanavian universities to include it in their curriculum not only as an important social document but as a work of literary merit. Fifty years on it is still remembered with enormous affection by everyone who read it and heard about it at the time, whether they read it as a hardback book or as a serialisation in The People, a Sunday newspaper more famous for its sensational journalism than its literary merit, the book being chosen personally by the Editor simply because as he confessed he had never read anything so funny or so touching. In its time CORONET AMONG THE WEEDS has been compared to THE CATCHER IN THE RYE and not without good reason since both are wonderful statements of the hopes and beliefs of contemporary youth. To disprove some of her critics who claimed the book to be a fluke and Miss Bingham to be a one trick literary pony, the young author went on to become one of the best selling and best loved authors of her generation, having to date written over forty works of published fiction as well as countless successful television, stage and film scripts in collaboration with her husband the actor and writer TERENCE BRADY, also publishing the autobiograhical sequel to her first book, CORONET AMONG THE GRASS, another best seller that she and her husband finally adapted for television as the chart topping comedy series NO HONESTLY. The humour in the book is as fresh as the day it was minted, as does the originality and honesty of the author's perception.
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(Unaware of the misery that surrounded her birth, for the ...)
Unaware of the misery that surrounded her birth, for the first four years of her life all Ottilie Cartaret knows is love. And when her mother, Ma O'Flaherty, moves her family to what she believes will be rural bliss in St Elcombe in Cornwall, their fortunes seem set fair. Tragedy strikes when Ma dies and young Ottilie soon finds herself in unfamiliar surroundings. Adopted by the Cartarets, the wealthy couple who run the Grand Hotel, she grows up pampered and spoilt, not only by her adoptive parents but by all the visitors--with the exception of their mysterious annual guest, nicknamed 'Blue Lady', with whom Ottilie is unknowingly and inextricably linked. But as times change, and the regulars to the now decaying hotel die off, the Cartarets find they are unable to adapt to modern ways. Only Ottilie has the means save the Grand, even though she may sacrifice too much of herself before learning once again the power of love.
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(Brought up in small-town-USA by a grandmother who despise...)
Brought up in small-town-USA by a grandmother who despises her, Cassie McGann’s childhood is one of misery and rejection. Fleeing to New York, she falls in love with handsome Irish racehorse trainer Tyrone Rosse, and when he marries her and takes her back to Claremore, his tumbledown mansion in Ireland, she is happy at last. Passionately in love as she is, Cassie can’t help but find the all-male world of Horseracing rather lonely. Yet there is much for her to learn, not least about the man she has married. Tyrone’s success depends heavily on the whims of wealthy horse owners, men — and women — whose demands are high. And Cassie must learn to endure the enmity of one in particular, who comes out of her buried past determined to destroy her. When tragedy strikes, it seems that Cassie must once again face rejection and lose her hard-won security. But although the chances of success are slim and the cost in personal happiness considerable, she fights against all odds to survive in a world closed against her. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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( It is 1947, the worst winter in England since records b...)
It is 1947, the worst winter in England since records began, and even the sea is frozen. For the women living in the little fishing port of Bexham, the chronic lack of everything from fuel to food has left them reeling. When Waldo Astley, a handsome young American, drives through thick Sussex snow into the village in his large Buick, he finds Bexham filled not only with grumbling residents, but with frustrated wives and mothers, forced back behind their stoves after celebrating the victory for which they fought so hard on the home front. But Waldo is no ordinary character, and while he has come to Bexham on a personal mission, his effect on all the residents is truly electrifying. For Judy, whose marriage to Walter has been badly affected by long years of separation; for Rusty, whose miscarriage has been mind-shattering; for Mathilda, whose single motherhood has put her eligibility in jeopardy; and for Meggie, still not recovered from her ordeal as a secret agent. For all these women, Waldo Astley is not just a breath of fresh air--but the wind off the sea.
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(Georgiana is poor, posh and beautiful. Jennifer, her best...)
Georgiana is poor, posh and beautiful. Jennifer, her best friend, is rich, middle-class and fat. They are both sent out to the London cocktail parties, balls and luncheons of a debutante's coming out to find mates who will enrich or ennoble them. The author's other novels include The Business.
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(This is the sequel to CHARLOTTE BINGHAM'S global best sel...)
This is the sequel to CHARLOTTE BINGHAM'S global best selling youthful autobiography CORONET AMONG THE WEEDS which was the a fiction sensation of the early 1960s, propelling the 19 year old author to international fame. The book became the part basis of the chart topping TV comedy series NON HONESTLY on LWTV and this the second volume became the other source. Both volumes are delightfully and often hilariously funny and earned rave reviews at the time from critics in over a dozen countries. Reading them you get the most wonderfully original picture of those now far off and more innocent times, and both CORONETS will surely earn their place in literary history.
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(The exciting sequel to her best-selling To Hear a Nightin...)
The exciting sequel to her best-selling To Hear a Nightingale. When Cassie Rosse becomes the first woman to train an English Derby winner, with her home-bred horse The Nightingale, she has every right to believe that success is hers at last. Indeed, as she leads in her winner and raises her eyes to heaven, calling to her dead love Tyrone, “We did it!” she knows that this success is as much Tyrone’s as hers. For it was to his Irish family home of Claremore that he brought Cassie as a young bride, and from Claremore that Cassie at last stormed home to win a place in the history books. Now all she has to do is enjoy her success and retire The Nightingale, since, as a stallion, he is worth millions. But life is never simple for Cassie Rosse, not just because she is unable to move out from the long shadows cast by the early death of her husband, nor because of her indomitable will to win, but because she has integrity. Against all advice, therefore, she decides to race The Nightingale as a four- year-old, a decision that quickly turns her brilliant triumph into a nightmare.
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(The idea for ROSE'S STORY originated with the hugely succ...)
The idea for ROSE'S STORY originated with the hugely successful television series UPSTAIRS, DOWNSTAIRS, in which Rose played a prominent part as head housemaid to the Bellamy family. The authors, husband-and-wife team Terence Brady and Charlotte Bingham, have taken Rose's television character as the basis of their novel and have produced a fascinating account of the experiences that led Rose to the house in Eaton Square and into service with the Bellamys. A novel of a servant girl growing up on the great country estates of Southwold. Rose was born there while Queen Victoria still reigned and it was accepted that she should enter service as a humble housemaid. But the whims of the gentry, so highly thought of by the innocent girl, took Rose to the bustling streets of London where she encountered a new world. A world of motor cars and such new-fangled inventions as the telephone and the vacuum cleaner.
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Bingham, Charlotte Mary Therese was born on June 29, 1942 in Haywards Heath, Sussex, England. Daughter of John Michael Ward and Madeleine (Ebel) Bingham.
Student, University Paris, Sorbonne, 1959-1960.
(This is the sequel to CHARLOTTE BINGHAM'S global best sel...)
(The idea for ROSE'S STORY originated with the hugely succ...)
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Married Terence Joseph Brady, January 15, 1964. Children: Candida, Matthew.