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Authors: Margery Sharp

BOOK: Cluny Brown

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About the Author

Margery Sharp (1905â1991) is renowned for her sparkling wit and insight into human nature, which are liberally displayed in her critically acclaimed social comedies of class and manners. Born in Yorkshire, England, she wrote pieces for
Punch
magazine after attending college and art school. In 1930, she published her first novel,
Rhododendron Pie
, and in 1938, she married Maj. Geoffrey Castle. Sharp wrote twenty-six novels, three of which,
Britannia Mews
,
Cluny Brown
, and
The Nutmeg Tree
, were made into feature films, and fourteen children's books, including
The Rescuers
, which was adapted into two Disney animated films.

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Cover design by Mimi Bark

ISBN: 978-1-5040-3425-8

This edition published in 2016 by Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.

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