Peking Picnic

  The Dark Moment

  The Tightening String

  Permission to Resign

  Julia Probyn Series

  The Lighthearted Quest

  The Portuguese Escape

  Julia Involved

  The Numbered Account

  The Dangerous Islands

  Emergency in the Pyrenees

  The Episode at Toledo

  The Malady in Madeira

  Julia in Ireland

  Non-fiction

  Portrait of My Mother

  The Selective Traveller in Portugal

  Facts and Fictions: Some Literary Recollections

  Moments of Knowing

  About the Author

  Ann Bridge was born Mary Dolling Sanders in 1889. The wife of a diplomat who was posted around the world, Ann Bridge came to writing relatively late. Her first novel, Peking Picnic (1932), was an immediate success and won the Atlantic Monthly Prize. She went on to have a distinguished and prolific writing career, and continued to travel the world. She died in 1974.

  Copyright

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