Saplings Category_Grey Books/Single Women Helen Ashton is in some

Helen Ashton is in some respects a typical Persephone author

indeed on his abhorrence of violence

one of the most shocking facts to emerge is that ‘the Fabian women deliberately avoided the poorest families… because they wanted to show how the general standard of living among ordinary manual workers was below a level which could support good health or nutrition

Set at Cadenabbia on Lake Como in September 1906

1986 by Lindsay Butterfield for GP & J Baker

Saplings Category_Grey Books/Single Women Helen Ashton is in someAFTERWORD BY JEREMY HOLMES 384pp ISBN 9781903155059 'I didn't know she wrote novels for grown ups,' people remark about Noel Streatfeild making those of us who have been secretly enjoying them in our mothers' editions, or in battered copies with the green Boots label, feel very lucky. Indeed, Noel had not thought of writing for children until her publisher persuaded to re work the first of her adult novels as Ballet Shoes; this had sold ten million