MY TURN TO MAKE THE TEA - Monica Dickens
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The third of Monica Dickens'' autobiographica l books describes her time as cub reporter on the Downingham Post, a long established small-town paper with a steady cir culation and not much sympathy with the innovations of its j unior reporter. '
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My Turn to Make the Tea was first published in 1951. It has a distinctly autobiographical feel to it
(Dickens, who just so happens to be Charles Dickens' great grand-daughter, did work as a newspaper reporter for a short time and later became a columnist for Woman's Own magazine) and reads very much like the diary of a young reporter learning the ropes.
There's no real plot of which to speak, but it doesn't seem to matter, because this is a witty and wholly entertaining story in its own right.
Dickens expertly conveys all the petty drama of working in a newsroom, but she's a dab hand at revealing the ups and downs of living in a boarding house populated by a cast of wonderful characters and ruled by a strict take-no-prisoners landlady.
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Monica Enid Dickens, MBE (10 May 1915 – 25 December 1992) was an English writer, the great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens.
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The Unicorn Library - Onder redactie van Dr. G.J. Visser
Boek is in Engels geschreven (eerste uitgave 1951)
Uitgave J.B. Wolters Groningen 1964 - 126 pag. tekst My turn to make the tea
23 pagina's Aantekeningen vertalingen ( in Nederlands)van moeilijke woorden in de tekst
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