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Valerie Helene Mendes (née Barnett, born October 1939) is an English novelist and poet. Mendes is best known for her teenage fiction novels, Girl in the Attic , Coming of Age , Lost and Found and The Drowning , and for her historical novels for adults: Larkswood , Daddy’s Girl and Beatrice and Alexander .
In her private family life, Valerie is Mum to Sir Sam Mendes CBE and Granny Val to her beloved grand children. Valerie is still a meticulous Editor, but only of her own work. Her imprint, VMBooks, has published her new historical novels, Daddy’s Girl and Beatrice and Alexander, her Memoir, Not Only But Also, and her collected poems, The ...
Flight of the Lark, the sequel to Valerie Mendes’ best-selling Larkswood, reunites us with the Hamilton family at the immediate outbreak of the Second World War. Louisa plans to train as a nurse in Edward’s brand new hospital. Thomas longs to grow wings as a fighter pilot with the RAF.
The Gathering. The Gathering – Collected Poems; Poetic Images by Chris Challis; Flight of the Lark. Flight of the Lark; Writing a Sequel; Larkswood. Larkswood
Not Only But Also: A Memoir was published by VMBooks in September 2021. After more than sixty years in publishing, Valerie Mendes steps aside from her own fiction to offer us a unique glimpse into the professional, pioneering and private strands of her life.
And can Larkswood ever become home to happiness again? “Genius is genetic in the family of American Beauty director Sam Mendes. His mother, Valerie Mendes, has written a suspenseful tale of an aristocratic clan, the Hamiltons.”. New York Post. “I have re-read Larkswood and wanted to say I enjoyed it even more the second time than the first.
1 gen 2014 · Valerie Mendes. 3.53. 930 ratings143 reviews. In the tradition of THE FORSYTE SAGA, a sweeping historical novel that spans three generations, telling the dark secrets of a family torn apart. Larkswood House. The very name suggests birdsong, peace and elegance.
