Come Home Charlie & Face Them: A classic heist novel full of 20s nostalgia

Come Home Charlie & Face Them: A classic heist novel full of 20s nostalgia

by R. F. Delderfield (Author)

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.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks
Published: 02 Jul 1998

ISBN 10: 0340286415
ISBN 13: 9780340286418
Book Overview: The classic heist story from one of the most popular authors of the 20th century: a bestseller wherever books were read.

Media Reviews
Mr Delderfield's manner is easy, modest, heartwarming * Evening Standard *
R F Delderfield is a born storyteller * Sunday Mirror *
Sheer, wonderful storytelling * Chicago Tribune *
It is always a pleasure to read R F Delderfield, because he never seems to be ashamed of writing well * Books and Bookmen *
'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 *
Author Bio
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.