Best Books By Nina Bawden
List of 5 best books written by Nina Bawden. Check out the booklist.
1. A Nice Change
Amy thought The Hotel Parthenon in Greece would be a nice change for her husband, Labour MP Tom Jones, grumpily recovering from an operation for piles. But first they meet Portia, Tom’s redheaded ex-mistress and then they receive a surprise visit from Tom’s rakish father, Vic. Also at the hotel are Philip, an American publisher recovering from his wife’s suicide; a young doctor, Prudence, nursing a broken heart and waiting for her Granny; and Mr and Mrs Boot who have decided it’s best to be out of the way of the London police for a little while.
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2. The White Horse Gang
Sam, his cousin Rose, and lonely Abe Turner explore the haunted Gibbet Wood and get into mischief and adventure.
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3. A Little Love, A Little Learning
By the author of “Circles of Deceit” and “Tortoise by Candlelight”, this novel shows the fragility of a family’s equilibrium. Three children live with their mother and are happy in the love of their stepfather. The arrival of an aunt and the adolescent worries of the girls sets up tensions.
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4. Ruffian On The Stair
In six days Silas Mudd will be one hundred years old and is alarmingly healthy – more than can be said of his son. ‘Not sure he’ll make old bones’ he confides loudly to his daughter-in-law. Grumpily flattered by the fuss over his impending party – even from his irritating family, Silas’ greater pleasure is ‘to go over his life’ and the women whom he loved and who made trouble for him: his sterling and capable Aunt; his wonderfully vulgar second wife Bella; Molly, a music-hall singing sister; and Effie, his first and hopeless wife. Silas is the only one left who knows exactly what is shoring up his family. And now he sits, waiting and thinking, just wondering what it would be like if he were to say …
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5. Family Money
Fanny Pye’s London house, bought for a song many years earlier, is now worth half a million. When she intervenes in a stret brawl and is hospitalised, her children tactifully suggest that she move to the suburbs, coincidently releasing some useful ‘family money’. Fanny has different views about inheritance and property is anyway more concerned that she cannot properly remember the events of that night and the death of a stranger. Then, as her amnesia clears, she is overwhelmed bu a terrible sense of danger.
