*Children’s Books: We’re delighted to add a new acquisition to our inventory by the delightful and much-loved children’s author Monica Edwards. This one has a special resonance for me. In 1927, at 16 years of age, Monica Edwards moved to Rye Harbour in East Sussex and in 1928 witnessed the Mary Stanford Lifeboat disaster, in which the whole crew lost their lives, including a young man who was secretly her boyfriend. Many years later she wrote a fictionalised account of the disaster called Storm Ahead, published in 1953. Rye and Rye Harbour are places I’ve visited lots of time in my life, observing the wreckage of the old lifeboat house on Rye Harbour beach, and reading the names on the nearby church memorial. We have a very lovely copy of Storm Ahead now in, the 1st paperback printing from Puffin in 1957, with just minor edge rubbing and a tiny tear at the base of the spine. A treasure.
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MONICA EDWARDS: STORM AHEAD Puffin 1957 1st UK PB GD/VG £15 SOLD