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Valerie Grove:
So Much to Tell
LF209
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Booking opens 1st July 2010
The Hampstead & Highgate Literary Festival is sponsored by BDO. All today's events are sponsored by Development Securities Plc.
Valerie Grove has been a journalist for 40 years: formerly for The Evening Standard and The Sunday Times, now on The Times, specialising in interviews. She lives in Highgate, and walks her Dalmatian on the Heath every day, and plays tennis almost as often. She wrote the biographies of Dodie Smith, Laurie Lee and John Mortimer, and is a mother of four. Her latest book,
So Much to Tell is a life of Kaye Webb, founder of the Puffin Club, who was married to the great cartoonist Ronald Searle.
Kaye Webb, a journalist with no publishing experience, burst into the world of children’s books in 1961 and changed the face of children’s publishing forever. Her child-like enthusiasm and shrewd business mind led her to become Puffin’s most successful editor and the genius behind the Puffin Club, which opened up the exciting world of authors and books to children across Britain. But whilst Kaye’s professional life had worked out beautifully, her private life had been the reverse. Kaye had two husbands before her marriage to the artist Ronald Searle, and the torment of his sudden and shocking departure never left her. Yet to the outside world Kaye Webb remained passionate and unstoppable. This is the unknown story of the woman who brought the joy of books to children everywhere whilst battling the emotional pain that plagued her private life.
The Hampstead & Highgate Literary Festival is sponsored by BDO. All today's events are sponsored by Development Securities Plc.
Valerie Grove has been a journalist for 40 years: formerly for The Evening Standard and The Sunday Times, now on The Times, specialising in interviews. She lives in Highgate, and walks her Dalmatian on the Heath every day, and plays tennis almost as often. She wrote the biographies of Dodie Smith, Laurie Lee and John Mortimer, and is a mother of four. Her latest book,
So Much to Tell is a life of Kaye Webb, founder of the Puffin Club, who was married to the great cartoonist Ronald Searle.
Kaye Webb, a journalist with no publishing experience, burst into the world of children’s books in 1961 and changed the face of children’s publishing forever. Her child-like enthusiasm and shrewd business mind led her to become Puffin’s most successful editor and the genius behind the Puffin Club, which opened up the exciting world of authors and books to children across Britain. But whilst Kaye’s professional life had worked out beautifully, her private life had been the reverse. Kaye had two husbands before her marriage to the artist Ronald Searle, and the torment of his sudden and shocking departure never left her. Yet to the outside world Kaye Webb remained passionate and unstoppable. This is the unknown story of the woman who brought the joy of books to children everywhere whilst battling the emotional pain that plagued her private life.