Good Evening, Mrs Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes

For fifty years Mollie Panter-Downes' name was associated with "The New Yorker", for which she wrote a regular 'Letter from London', book reviews and over thirty short stories; of the twenty-one in "G…

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