It Pays to be Good

by SusanScarlett (Author)

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  2015

  $3.39

  Flossie Elk's headmistress maintained that Beauty is the cause of much sorrow. Her father, greengrocer George Elk, always said that Beauty is a lure of Satan and only wanted his daughter to be a nice sensible girl as'll make a good wife for some man. But Mrs. Elk knew of the astounding power wielded by the beautiful: If you 'ave the looks, you use 'em, my girl, she said to a gurgling Flossie in her pram. Even then, Flossie needed no telling.Noel Streatfeild casts a cynical eye backstage on to a world she knew so well before, disillusioned, she abandoned it to become a writer. Originally published in 1936, the reviews unanimously declared this to be Streatfeild's finest book so far, witty, intelligent and subtle.