Lucy Carmichael
$30.62
- Paperback
496 pages
- Release Date
6 January 2026
Summary
Celebrating 90 Years of Penguin Michael Joseph publishing with the Mermaid collection:
Margaret Kennedy’s Lucy Carmichael with a foreword by Lucy Mangan
“People seem to get over things, don’t they? I don’t know how, but they do - ordinary people. I’m very ordinary, so I expect I shall do what they do.”
Lucy Carmichael is jilted at the altar. But no matter. Her loving and kind family never liked her explorer fiancé anyway.
Instead of moping or falling i…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781405982825 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1405982829 |
| Author: | Margaret Kennedy |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 496 |
| Release Date: | 6 January 2026 |
| Weight: | 401g |
| Dimensions: | 31mm x 129mm x 197mm |
| Series: | The Mermaid Collection |
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Critics Review
Praise for Margaret Kennedy * : *
She is not only a romantic but an anarchist, and she knows the ways of men and women very well indeed – Anita Brookner
Kennedy was immensely popular in her heyday * Washington Post *
Margaret Kennedy’s poised style, cool wit and skilful characterization kept her novels welcome for three decades * Cambridge Guide to Literature in English *
There is a wildness [in her mind]; a galloping, untutored spirit – Beverley Nichols
Margaret Kennedy
Margaret Kennedy was born in London in 1896 and read History at Somerville College, Oxford in 1915 (alongside Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain) where she began writing. In 1924, Kennedy’s second novel The Constant Nymph became a worldwide bestseller which she adapted into a hit West End play starring Noel Coward (three different star-studded film versions followed). Described as ‘superb’ by Elizabeth Bowen, Kennedy wrote fifteen further prize-winning novels including The Feast in 1950, as well as literary criticism and a biography of Jane Austen. She died in 1967.
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