Come Home Charlie and Face Them - Softcover

R F Delderfield

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340286415 ISBN 13: 9780340286418

Publisher: Coronet, 1998

Synopsis

The real motive wasn't love and it wasn't greed . . . It rose to the surface out of a grey pit of boredom.

When Charlie Pritchard is shown a way to escape his mundane and monotonous life as a small-town bank clerk in a tiny Welsh resort in the 1920s, and live instead in wealth with beautiful Delphine, he knows that this is his only chance. And he has to take it - even if the plan is to rob his own bank.

However, as zero hour approaches he realises that there is far more at stake than he had ever imagined, and that there will be no escape, no escape at all.

About this title

About the Author:

R.F. Delderfield was born in South London in 1912. On leaving school he joined the Exmouth Chronicle newspaper as a junior reporter, where he went on to become Editor. From there he began to write stage plays and then became a highly successful novelist, renowned for brilliantly portraying slices of English life. With the publication of his first saga, A HORSEMAN RIDING BY, he became one of Britain's most popular authors. Many of his bestselling novels were later adapted for television. He died in 1972.

Review:

'He built an imposing artistic social history that promises to join those of his great forebears in the long, noble line of the English novel. His narratives belong in a tradition that goes back to John Galsworthy and Arnold Bennett' Life Magazine * Life Magazine * It is always a pleasure to read R F Delderfield, because he never seems to be ashamed of writing well * Books and Bookmen * Sheer, wonderful storytelling * Chicago Tribune * R F Delderfield is a born storyteller * Sunday Mirror * Mr Delderfield's manner is easy, modest, heartwarming * Evening Standard *

About this edition

• Publisher: Coronet
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0340286415
• ISBN 13: 9780340286418
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 288