The new series of Ngaio Marsh editions concludes with a new edition of her autobiography. What sort of person was Ngaio Marsh, whose detective novels made her name known throughout the world? With all the insight and sense of style her readers have come to expect of her, her autobiography reveals the influences and environment that have shaped her personality. Widely acclaimed when first published in 1965, Black Beech and Honeydew is a sensitive account of Ngaio Marsh's childhood and adolescence in Christchurch and the establishment of her theatre and writing careers both there and in the UK. It captures all the joys, fears and hopes of a spirited young woman growing up and transmits an artist's gradual awareness of the special flavour of life in New Zealand and the individual character of its landscape. Fully revised and updated in 1981, this new edition is reissued 21 years later as a commemoration of Ngaio Marsh's life and work. It is a sanguine, poised, unpretentious, thoughtful and often moving record of a full life, and -- despite its unavailability for nearly 20 years -- has been acclaimed as her most distinguished work. No one who had read and enjoyed any of Ngaio Marsh's 32 novels can afford to overlook this gifted and charming autobiography.
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'Still, quite simply, the greatest exponent of the classical English detective story.' Daily Telegraph
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Dame Ngaio Marsh was born in New Zealand in 1895 and died in February 1982. She wrote over 30 detective novels and many of her stories have theatrical settings, for Ngaio Marsh's real passion was the theatre. She was both actress and producer and almost single-handedly revived the New Zealand public's interest in the theatre. It was for this work that the received what she called her 'damery' in 1966.
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Not being a great fan of autobiography, I didn't expect to enjoy this book as much as I did. I should have known better. After all those years of enjoying her detective fiction, I should have known that anything she wrote would not disappoint. Other writers in the genre who wrote during the same time period -l934 to l982 - frequently seem dated; however, Miss Marsh does not. She is so literate, and she is funny and smart, and she had a truly interesting life and was from a truly interesting place, New Zealand's South Island. Though her London years added enormously to her story and her stories (particularly in providing backgrounds and settings for her novels), her heart belonged to New Zealand. And to the theatre (perhaps more theatre than I really wanted), but then without that particular love of her life, the book would not have been Ngaio Marsh writing about her life. The reader who has loved her books will certainly love this one.
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