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Valerie Helene Mendes (née Barnett, born October 1939) is an English novelist and poet. Mendes is best known for her teenage fiction novels, Girl in the Attic, Coming of Age, Lost and Found and The Drowning, and for her historical novels for adults: Larkswood, Daddy’s Girl and Beatrice and Alexander.
Valerie is still a meticulous Editor, but only of her own work. Her imprint, VMBooks, has published her new historical novels, Daddy’s Girl and Beatrice and Alexander, her Memoir, Not Only But Also, and her collected poems, The Gathering.
Valerie Mendes - author A memoir, NOT ONLY BUT ALSO, historical novels DADDY'S GIRL and BEATRICE AND ALEXANDER, and THE GATHERING: COLLECTED POEMS. Available on Amazon.
Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Children's. edit data. Valerie Mendes started writing when she was six. Seventy years later, she looks half her age, feels twenty-one – and is still obsessed with telling a good story.
Valerie Mendes has 24 books on Goodreads with 3289 ratings. Valerie Mendes’s most popular book is Larkswood.
Larkswood. Larkswood House is home to the Hamilton children – Edward, Cynthia and Harriet – who enjoy the freedom and excitement of privilege. But in the glorious English summer of 1896, with absent parents and a departed governess, disaster strikes the family, leaving it cruelly divided.
Jan 1, 2014 · Valerie Mendes. 3.53. 938 ratings144 reviews. In the tradition of THE FORSYTE SAGA, a sweeping historical novel that spans three generations, telling the dark secrets of a family torn apart. Larkswood House. The very name suggests birdsong, peace and elegance.
