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First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 171. Original publisher's green cloth lettered gilt at the spine. Signed presentation 'June and Nevile love and poulles (?) from Muriel.' Loosely inserted is a signed post card to her friends Jane and Neville Braybrooke . Neville Braybrooke (1923-2001) man of letters: poet, novelist, essayist, biographer of Olivia Manning, editor of literary periodicals (The Wind and the Rain)He was married to the novelist known as Isobel English (June Braybrooke). The post card is from The Friars Aylesford, Kent (with photo on front of the village square) and invites the couple to visit her there and congratulates Neville on his new book. Signed 'Much love, Muriel'. She had a significant personal and creative connection with The Friars, Aylesford Priory, a Carmelite centre in Kent, England. She stayed there during a critical period in her life and work, and the location served as inspiration for her first novel, The Comforters. She first went there in O1954 at the suggestion of Graham Greene, who also provided her with financial support to help her recover from a nervous collapse. She initially stayed in the guest house for pilgrims before moving to a nearby cottage owned by the monastery at Allington Castle. Very good indeed in about very good complete dust jacket very slightly used with sl surface wear, very sl edgewear at spine ends. No other inscriptions, not price-clipped.
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