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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.
My Life in Images; Publications: Rich and Various; The Encyclopedia of Visual Art
Photo by Chris Challis Photography. Valerie has just completed her third historical novel, Beatrice and Alexander, together with Not Only But Also: A Memoir. Valerie is currently writing a long-awaited sequel to Larkswood. It is called Flight of the Lark.
The Eye of the Beholder. To produce an image that looks this good is the result of many pairs of extraordinary eyes using their individual expertise. I shall be 82 in October. This photograph is not of a beautiful woman, but of an author who works meticulously around the clock at everything she does, says and writes.
She has published two picture books, Tomasina’s First Dance and Look at Me, Grandma! and four young adult novels, Girl in the Attic, Coming of Age, Lost and Found and The Drowning. Larkswood, Valerie’s first historical novel for the adult market, was published by Orion in 2014, and translated into German.
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Valerie Mendes, British children's author, circa May 2003. Mendes is best-known for her teenage fiction novels, Girl in the Attic (2002) and Lost and Found (2004). She has also published a historical fiction novel, Larkswood (2011), at the age of 74.
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Valerie Mendes - author (@_valeriemendes) • Instagram photos and videos. 622 Followers, 693 Following, 35 Posts - Valerie Mendes - author (@_valeriemendes) on Instagram: "A memoir, NOT ONLY BUT ALSO, historical novels DADDY'S GIRL and BEATRICE AND ALEXANDER, and THE GATHERING: COLLECTED POEMS.
