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Dear Dodie: The Life of Dodie Smith

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Frank and funny, unorthodox, liberated and quintessentially English, Dodie Smith, playwright and novelist, was the author of those immortal classics, The Hundred and One Dalmations and I Capture the Castle. One of the most successful dramatists of her generation, she spent the war years in America, befriended Christopher Isherwood and, through Walt Disney’s film, became a household name.

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Weight 0.246 kg
Dimensions 2 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
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Format

Paperback
Language

Pages

352
Publisher

Year Published

2011-4-19
Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

1845951735
About The Author

Valerie Grove is a journalist and interviewer with a weekly column in The Times. She was born in South Shields and educated at Girton College, Cambridge. She joined the London Evening Standard in 1968, becoming a journalist and later its literary editor. Her first book, Where I Was Young, was published in 1976 and her second, The Compleat Woman, in 1987. She is married to journalist Trevor Grove and has four children. She lives in North London.
Review Quote

I have nothing but praise for this engrossing book, which on the one hand recreates a recent, but forgotten theatrical age, and on the other should introduce Dodie to a host of new readers.
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Beautifully written, warm and lively, with enough detachment for us to see Dodie for ourselves-Full of life and zip.

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