Celia Dale was born in 1912 to parents who were both on the stage. She was once a secretary to Rumer Godden, and also worked as a publisher’s advisor and a book reviewer. Her first...voir plusCelia Dale was born in 1912 to parents who were both on the stage. She was once a secretary to Rumer Godden, and also worked as a publisher’s advisor and a book reviewer. Her first novel, The Least of These, was published in 1943, and she went on to write twelve others, among them A Helping Hand and Sheep’s Clothing. She won the 1986 Crime Writers Association Veuve Clicquot Short Story Award for ‘Lines of Communication’, which appears in her only short story collection, A Personal Call and Other Stories. She died in 2011.voir moins