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Come Home Charlie & Face Them: A classic heist novel full of 20s nostalgia
R. F. Delderfield
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Description for Come Home Charlie & Face Them: A classic heist novel full of 20s nostalgia
Paperback. The classic heist story from one of the most popular authors of the 20th century: a bestseller wherever books were read. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 112 x 18. Weight in Grams: 164.
The real motive wasn't love and it wasn't greed . . . It rose to the surface out of a grey pit of boredom.
When Charlie Pritchard is shown a way to escape his mundane and monotonous life as a small-town bank clerk in a tiny Welsh resort in the 1920s, and live instead in wealth with beautiful Delphine, he knows that this is his only chance. And he has to take it - even if the plan is to rob his own bank.
However, as zero hour approaches he realises that there is far more at stake ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780340286418
SKU
V9780340286418
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Ref
99-10
About R. F. Delderfield
R.F. Delderfield was born in South London in 1912. On leaving school he joined the Exmouth Chronicle newspaper as a junior reporter, where he went on to become Editor. From there he began to write stage plays and then became a highly successful novelist, renowned for brilliantly portraying slices of English life. With the publication of his first saga, A ... Read more
Reviews for Come Home Charlie & Face Them: A classic heist novel full of 20s nostalgia
Mr Delderfield's manner is easy, modest, heartwarming
Evening Standard
R F Delderfield is a born storyteller
Sunday Mirror
Sheer, wonderful storytelling
Chicago Tribune
It is always a pleasure to read R F Delderfield, because he never seems to be ashamed of writing well
Books and Bookmen
'He built an imposing artistic ... Read more
Evening Standard
R F Delderfield is a born storyteller
Sunday Mirror
Sheer, wonderful storytelling
Chicago Tribune
It is always a pleasure to read R F Delderfield, because he never seems to be ashamed of writing well
Books and Bookmen
'He built an imposing artistic ... Read more