A feel-good classic, soon to be a major film starring Leslie Manville, Isabelle Huppert, Jason Isaacs and Lucas Bravo
Paul Gallico was born in New York City, of Italian and Austrian parentage, in 1897, and attended Columbia University. From 1922 to 1936 he worked on the New York Daily News as sports editor, columnist, and assistant managing editor. In 1936 he bought a house on top of a hill at Salcombe in South Devon and settled down with a Great Dane and twenty-three assorted cats. It was in 1941 that he made his name with The Snow Goose, a classic story of Dunkirk which became a world-wide best-seller. Having served as a gunner's mate in the U.S. Navy in 1918, he was again active as a war correspondent with the American Expeditionary Force in 1944. Paul Gallico, who later lived in Monaco, was a first-class fencer and a keen sea-fisherman. He wrote over forty books, four of which were the adventures of Mrs Harris: Mrs Harris Goes to Paris (1958), Mrs Harris Goes to New York (1959), Mrs. Harris, M.P. (1965) and Mrs Harris Goes to Moscow (1974). One of the most prolific and professional of American authors, Paul Gallico died in July 1976. He was married four times and had several children.
Mrs Harris is one of the great creations of fiction - so real that
you feel you know her, yet truly magical as well. I can never have
enough of her
*JUSTINE PICARDIE*
It is almost impossible not to succumb to Gallico's spell
*TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT*
'Wherever she goes Mrs. Harris seems to sprinkle fairy dust over
those she meets. YET she's very realistically drawn and the book is
fraught with painful setbacks ... In the end Mrs. Harris' yearning
for the dress is secondary. The friendships that are made because
of her quest are what change her life forever. This book was a
delight from start to finish'
*Worthwhilebooks.blogspot*
‘A heartwarming, engaging novelette'
*Bookmark*
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