{"product_id":"fanfare-for-tin-trumpets-9781913527631","title":"Fanfare for Tin Trumpets","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHe also made himself a weekly allowance of five shillings for cigarettes, stationery, amusements, shoe-repairs, razor-blades, laundry, toothpaste, hospitality and 'bus fares; and having thus cut his coat to his cloth, wore it in great content.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe only thing he had not allowed for (and this in an author must surely be considered strange) was Love.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUpon the death of his distant, unaffectionate father, Alistair French, a young store clerk, takes his small inheritance and escapes from the humdrum to a flat in London in order to Write. He and his friend Henry take cheap lodgings in a Paddington boarding-house whose denizens include the spirited, starstruck Winnie Parker, her full-throated mother, who shares Winnie's passion for films if not her admiration for Garbo (\"'Olds 'erself like a sack of potatoes\"), and (generally) an army of Winnie's admirers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Alistair, faced with the many distractions of Bloomsbury and Bohemia, has considerable trouble getting any writing done. And then there's the biggest distraction of all-a lovely young actress named Cressida who is, to Alistair's chagrin, determined to marry only a man who can further her career. First published in 1932 and out of print for more than 80 years, \u003cem\u003eFanfare for Tin Trumpets\u003c\/em\u003e is one of Margery Sharp's most irresistibly cheerful confections. This new edition features an introduction by twentieth-century women's historian Elizabeth Crawford.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'We can only hope that this charming piece of impertinence will be widely read for its fine sympathy with youth in all its shapes' \u003cem\u003eAngela Thirkell\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSharp, Margery:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Margery Sharp was born Clara Margery Melita Sharp in 1905 in Wiltshire. She spent some of her childhood in Malta, and on the family's return to England became a pupil at Streatham Hill High School. She later studied at Bedford College, London, where she claimed her time was devoted 'almost entirely to journalism and campus activities.' Still living in London, she began her writing career at the age of twenty-one, becoming a contributor of fiction and non-fiction to many of the most notable periodicals of the time in both Britain and America. In 1938 she married Major Geoffrey Castle, an aeronautical engineer. On the outbreak of World War II, she served as a busy Army Education Lecturer, but continued her own writing both during and long after the conflict. Many of her stories for adults became the basis for Hollywood movie screenplays, in addition to the 'Miss Bianca' children's series, animated by Disney as The Rescuers in 1977. Margery Sharp ultimately wrote 22 novels for adults (not 26, as is sometimes reported), as well as numerous stories and novellas (many of them published only in periodicals) and various works for children. She died in Suffolk in 1991, one year after her husband.","brand":"Dean Street Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50444370116882,"sku":"9781913527631","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1ab0d637-073e-49b0-9bb2-a1067bc67c22.jpg?v=1729681145","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/fanfare-for-tin-trumpets-9781913527631","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}