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Angela Lambert
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Angela Maria Helps was born on 14 April 1940, to a English civil servant and a German-born housewife. She wanted to be a writer from childhood. She read politics, philosophy and economics at Oxford. In 1962, she married Martin Lambert, they had a son a daughter, but the union ended five years later, when he left her with two young children to support. She also had other daughter with the Hungarian-born writer Stephen Vizinczey
In 1969, Angela began her career in journalism as an assistant editor at Modern Woman magazine, only to be sacked when she was pregnant. She later became a television journalist at ITN and then joined The Independent newspaper in 1988. She was the author of two volumes of British social history entitled Unquiet Souls: The Indian Summer of the British Aristocracy (1984), and 1939, The Last Season of Peace (1989). She also wrote seven novels, of which the best known was A Rather English Marriage (1992) which was later adapted for a television drama of the same title. Her last published work was a biography of Hitler’s mistress entitled The Lost Life of Eva Braun (2006). In 1998, her novel Kiss and Kin won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association. Angela suffered multiple immune disorders and hepatitis C (caught from a blood transfusion) which led to cirrhosis of the liver. Having survived a critical illness in February 2006, she never quite recovered, and became increasingly disabled. She lived in London and France (having bought a house in the Dordogne in 1972). She passed away on 26 September 2007, she is survived by TV director Tony Price, her partner of 21 years, and by her son and two daughters.
Book List in Order: 8 titles
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1939: The Last Season of Peace
- Apr-1989
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First published in 1989, this is an account of the oldest of traditions. It was called the London Season, and for three centuries it had been a time of fashionable suppers and brilliant balls that introduced England's most aristocratic and eligib...
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Love Among the Single Classes
- Apr-1989
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'We who are members of the single classes, unmarried and unattached, are always waiting to fall in love...Every day and each encounter holds out the possibility of that momentous flash which will change everything.'
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No Talking after Lights
- Sep-1990
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Long light evenings, swimming and tennis, striped cotton frocks...it's summer term at Raeburn. New arrival Constance King hates her boarding school on sight, yet dreams of being accepted by the other girls. Instead, she finds a ferment of frustra...
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A Rather English Marriage
- Oct-1992
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A Rather English Marriage tells of Roy Southgate and Reginald Conynghame-Jervi, who have nothing in common but their loneliness and their wartime memories.Roy, a retired milkman and Reggie, a former RAF Squadron Leader, are widowed on the same day. T...
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Golden Lads and Girls
- Jan-1999
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Just occasionally it happens that children fall in love--a strange and innocent love, full of emotional intensity and the source of lifelong, radiant memories. Such a love occurs in 1911 between Hermione, a nine-year-old girl, and Sandy, her eleven-y...
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The Property of Rain
- May-2001
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This evocative novel by Angela Lambert is set in India and rural England and is about two young people, from different continents, whose lives become tragically connected....
Award-Winning Books by Angela Lambert
1998 RoNA -- Romantic Novel of the Year
