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Jill Paton Walsh CBE FRSL (born 29 April 1937) is an English novelist and children's writer. She may be known best for the Peter Wimsey–Harriet Vane mysteries that have completed and continued the work of Dorothy Sayers. Born Gillian Bliss, she.

Jill Paton Walsh CBE FRSL (born 29 April 1937) is an English novelist and children's writer. Born Gillian Bliss, she was educated at St. Michael's Convent, North Finchley, London, and she read English Literature at St Anne's College, Oxford. She lives in Cambridge. In 1961, she married Antony Paton Walsh (died 30 December 2003); the couple had one son and two daughters

A School for Lovers book. Jill Paton Walsh was born Gillian Bliss in London on April 29th, 1937. She was educated at St. Michael's Convent, North Finchley, and at St. Anne's College, Oxford

A School for Lovers book. From the Booker Prize shortlisted author of Knowledge of Angels, this. Anne's College, Oxford. From 1959 to 1962 she taught English at Enfield Girls' Grammar School. Jill Paton Walsh has won the Book World Festival Award, 1970, for Fireweed; the Whitbread Prize, 1974 (for a Children's novel) for The Emperor's Winding Sheet; The Jill Paton Walsh was born Gillian Bliss in London on April 29th, 1937.

Jill Paton Walsh, CBE, FRSL (born 29 April 1937) is an English novelist and children's writer. She may be known best for the Peter Wimsey–Harriet Vane mysteries that have completed or continued the work of Dorothy Sayers. YouTube Encyclopedic. Paton Walsh wrote four detective stories featuring part-time college nurse Imogen Quy, set in fictional St. Agatha's College, University of Cambridge: The Wyndham Case (1993). A Piece of Justice (1995). New York: Lathrop, Lee, and Shepard Books.

Jill Paton Walsh was born Gillian Bliss on April 29, 1937 in London. She graduated from St. Anne's College in Oxford. Her adult works include Knowledge of Angels, The Serpentine Cave, and A School for Lovers. She taught at the Enfield Girls' Grammar School for three years and was a permanent visiting faculty member for the Center for Children's Literature at Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts. She was also an adjunct British board member of Children's Literature New England. She is the author of the Imogen Quy Mystery series and the Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery series. She was elected as fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1996.

I've read Jill Paton Walsh Imogen Quy novels and loved them, this was different, in that it's main setting was Cornwall, and not crime fiction but similarly brought its setting to life. Well rounded characters and an unsolved puzzle made me read into the night.

Set at St. Agatha's, a fictional Cambridge University college, Paton Walsh's bland academic cozy will appeal most to readers enamored of the culture of British higher education and conversant in its vocabulary

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now. ― Napoleon Hill. by Jill Paton Walsh · Lloyd Bloom. Set at St. Agatha's, a fictional Cambridge University college, Paton Walsh's bland academic cozy will appeal most to readers enamored of the culture of British higher education and conversant in its vocabulary. Others may find that the task of navigating. The Wyndham Case (Imogen Quy, by Jill Paton Walsh.

ISBN 10: 0552996467 ISBN 13: 9780552996464. Publisher: Black Swan Book, 1996. Book by Jill Paton Walsh.

Jill Paton Walsh, CBE, FRSL (born 29 April 1937) is an English novelist and children s writer. Born as Gillian Bliss and educated at St. Michael s Convent, North Finchley, London, she read English Literature at St Anne s College, Oxford. Other adult novels include Lapsing (about Catholic university students), A School for Lovers (a reworking of the plot of Mozart's Cosi fan tutte) The Serpentine Cave (based on a lifeboat disaster in St Ives) and A Desert in Bohemia which follows a group of characters in England and in an imaginary Eastern European country through the years between World War.

Jill Paton Walsh has written: 'Birdy and the ghosties' - subject(s): Extrasensory perception, Fiction, Ghosts. A school for lovers'. Gaffer Samson's Luck (Sunburst Book)'. Green Book Walsh J P'. 'The Dolphin crossing' - subject(s): History, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, World War, 1939-1945. Persian gold' - subject(s): Children's stories. A School for Lovers, reworking of the plot of Mozart's Cosi fan tutte. The Serpentine Cave (1997), based on a lifeboat disaster in St Ives.