In Alfred Gibson the fierce energy and brilliance of the most famous of the Victorian novelists is recreated, in a heart-warming story of first love--of a cocky young writer smitten by a pretty girl in a blue dress.
Publisher: Tindal Street Press
Gaynor
Arnold
Gaynor Arnold was born and raised in Cardiff. She read English at St. Hilda's College, Oxford, and acted in numerous plays while an undergraduate, notably at the Edinburgh Festival and in the USA. She's been a social worker for 40 years and currently works for Birmingham city council's Adoption and Fostering Service. Gaynor has written stories since her early childhood and has a particular fascination with the life and work of Charles Dickens. Several of her short stories have been published in anthologies and literary magazines and she is a member of a writers' group. Girl in a Blue Dress is her first published novel and has been long listed for the 2008 Man Booker Prize and the 2009 Orange Prize for Fiction. She currently lives in Birmingham and is married with two grown-up children.
