Mrs Harris MP

Name: Mrs Harris MP
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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★★★★★

English

By (author): Paul Gallico

The classic satirical novel 'Mrs Harris is one of the great creations of fiction - so real that you feel you know her, yet truly magical as well. I can never have enough of her' Justine Picardie 'It is almost impossible not to succumb to Gallico's spell' Times Literary Supplement Mrs Harris is a salt-of-the-earth charlady, content with her lot, cleaning the homes of the rich. However, her knack of setting things straight often has the tendency to stray beyond keeping things neat and tidy... In Mrs Harris MP, the honest as-ever old char impresses her employer with her no-nonsense political views to such an extent that he - an MP, no less - encourages her to become a voice for the people of Battersea and stand for election herself. The world of local politics, however, soon proves a test for a lady as straight-laced as Mrs Harris; political skulduggery, the glare of the media and the apparent betrayal of a trusted friend all becoming issues she just hadn't bargained on... See more

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Weight: 104g
Dimensions: 111 x 178mm
Publication Date: 24 May 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781408832028

About Paul Gallico

Paul Gallico was born in New York City of Italian and Austrian parentage in 1897 and attended Columbia University. From 1922 to 1936 he worked on the New York Daily News as sports editor columnist and assistant managing editor. In 1936 he bought a house on top of a hill at Salcombe in South Devon and settled down with a Great Dane and twenty-three assorted cats. It was in 1941 that he made his name with The Snow Goose a classic story of Dunkirk which became a world-wide best-seller. Having served as a gunner's mate in the U.S. Navy in 1918 he was again active as a war correspondent with the American Expeditionary Force in 1944. Paul Gallico who later lived in Monaco was a first-class fencer and a keen sea-fisherman. He wrote over forty books four of which were the adventures of Mrs Harris: Mrs Harris Goes to Paris (1958) Mrs Harris Goes to New York (1959) Mrs. Harris M.P. (1965) and Mrs Harris Goes to Moscow (1974). One of the most prolific and professional of American authors Paul Gallico died in July 1976.