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  1. Valerie Helene Mendes (née Barnett, born October 1939) is an English novelist and poet. Mendes is best known for her teenage fiction novels, Girl in the Attic, Coming of Age, Lost and Found and The Drowning, and for her historical novels for adults: Larkswood, Daddy’s Girl and Beatrice and Alexander.

  2. Valerie is still a meticulous Editor, but only of her own work. Her imprint, VMBooks, has published her new historical novels, Daddy’s Girl and Beatrice and Alexander, her Memoir, Not Only But Also, and her collected poems, The Gathering.

  3. Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Children's. edit data. Valerie Mendes started writing when she was six. Seventy years later, she looks half her age, feels twenty-one – and is still obsessed with telling a good story.

  4. Jan 1, 2014 · Valerie Mendes. 3.53. 933 ratings144 reviews. In the tradition of THE FORSYTE SAGA, a sweeping historical novel that spans three generations, telling the dark secrets of a family torn apart. Larkswood House. The very name suggests birdsong, peace and elegance.

  5. Larkswood. Larkswood House is home to the Hamilton children – Edward, Cynthia and Harriet – who enjoy the freedom and excitement of privilege. But in the glorious English summer of 1896, with absent parents and a departed governess, disaster strikes the family, leaving it cruelly divided.

  6. Flight of the Lark, the sequel to Valerie Mendes’. best-selling Larkswood, reunites us with the Hamilton family. at the immediate outbreak of the Second World War. Louisa plans to train as a nurse in Edward’s brand new hospital.

  7. Valerie Mendes has 24 books on Goodreads with 3289 ratings. Valerie Mendess most popular book is Larkswood.

  8. Valerie Mendes, formerly Head of the Textiles and Dress Department at the Victoria and Albert Museum, is a freelance fashion and textiles historian and consultant. She began her career at Manchester University's Whitworth Art Gallery, and has curated numerous exhibitions and published widely.

  9. Not Only But Also: A Memoir. After more than sixty years in publishing, Valerie Mendes steps aside from her own fiction to offer us a unique glimpse into the professional, pioneering and private strands of her life.

  10. Nov 1, 2014 · Valerie Mendes started her working life as a journalist, before moving into book publishing where she worked with Oxford University Press, Penguin Books, and Elsevier among others.

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