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Valerie Helene Mendes ( née Barnett, born October 1939) is an English novelist and poet. Mendes is best known for her teenage fiction novels, Girl in the Attic, Coming of Age, Lost and Found and The Drowning, and for her historical novels for adults: Larkswood, Daddy’s Girl and Beatrice and Alexander. In 2021, Mendes published Not Only But ...
Valerie Mendes is a British writer who has published several historical novels, including Larkswood and Beatrice and Alexander, and a memoir, Not Only But Also. She is also the mother of director Sam Mendes and the grandmother of his children.
Larkswood, Valerie’s first historical novel for the adult market, was published by Orion in 2014, and translated into German. The Choice, Valerie’s second historical novel for adults, is set in Oxford, Woodstock and Cornwall in 1936.
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Valerie Mendes has 24 books on Goodreads with 3295 ratings. Valerie Mendes’s most popular book is Larkswood.
Not Only But Also: A Memoir was published by VMBooks in September 2021. After more than sixty years in publishing, Valerie Mendes steps aside from her own fiction to offer us a unique glimpse into the professional, pioneering and private strands of her life.
Larkswood is a suspenseful tale of an aristocratic family and a mysterious past. Valerie Mendes is the mother of Sam Mendes, the director of American Beauty and other films.
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Jan 1, 2014 · Valerie Mendes. 3.53. 938 ratings144 reviews. In the tradition of THE FORSYTE SAGA, a sweeping historical novel that spans three generations, telling the dark secrets of a family torn apart. Larkswood House. The very name suggests birdsong, peace and elegance.
