Dog Days

Dog Days

by Mavis Cheek (Author)

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 08 Jul 2002

ISBN 10: 0571215130
ISBN 13: 9780571215133

Media Reviews
'Why Mavis Cheek is not as celebrated as Joanna Trollope or Mary Wesley is a mystery. She's got everything they have, in spades. If anything, she's an improvement on them, in that her sense of humour is wicked and her literary allusions wider.' Observer
Author Bio
Mavis Cheek was born and grew up in Wimbledon. She began her working life at Editions Alecto, the contemporary art publishers. After Alecto, she attended Hillcroft College for Women from where she graduated in Arts. After her daughter Bella was born, she began her writing career in earnest; journalism and travel writing at first, then short stories, and eventually, in 1988, her novel Pause Between Acts was published by Bodley Head and won the She/John Menzies First Novel Prize. She is the author of thirteen novels novels including Mrs Fytton's Country Life, Janice Gentle Gets Sexy and, most recently, Amenable Women which was described in The Times as 'a brilliantly funny, warm, intelligent read'. She now lives and writes in the heart of the English countryside..