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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.
Valerie Mendes is a British writer who has published several historical novels, including Larkswood and Beatrice and Alexander, and a memoir, Not Only But Also. She is also the mother of director Sam Mendes and the grandmother of his children.
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.
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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.
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.
Valerie Mendes has 24 books on Goodreads with 3289 ratings. Valerie Mendes’s most popular book is Larkswood.
Jan 1, 2014 · Valerie Mendes. 3.53. 936 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.
