Saplings Category_Grey Books/Single Women Claire is fortunate enough to

Claire is fortunate enough to have a house and financial resources to utilise

written two years after Journey’s End

was herself only 20

Helen Ashton is in some respects a typical Persephone author

according to the Guardian

Saplings Category_Grey Books/Single Women Claire is fortunate enough toAFTERWORD BY JEREMY HOLMES 384pp ISBN 9781903155059 'I didn't know she wrote novels for grown ups,' people remark about Noel Streatfeild making those of us who have been secretly enjoying them in our mothers' editions, or in battered copies with the green Boots label, feel very lucky. Indeed, Noel had not thought of writing for children until her publisher persuaded to re work the first of her adult novels as Ballet Shoes; this had sold ten million