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(eng) Ida Cook also writes as Mary Burchell and James Keene (with Will Cook).

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Tekijän teokset

The Girl in the Blue Dress (1958) 47 kappaletta
A Song Begins (1965) 41 kappaletta
Under the Stars of Paris (1954) 36 kappaletta
Damaged Angel = The Broken Wing (1966) 28 kappaletta
Nightingales (1980) 27 kappaletta
When Love Is Blind (1967) 27 kappaletta
Unbidden Melody (1973) 27 kappaletta
The Curtain Rises (1969) 25 kappaletta
Remembered Serenade (1975) 25 kappaletta
Song Cycle (1974) 24 kappaletta
Child of Music (1971) 23 kappaletta
Except My Love (1937) 22 kappaletta
Music of the Heart (1972) 21 kappaletta
Yours with Love (1940) 21 kappaletta
Masquerade with Music (1982) 20 kappaletta
On Wings of Song (1985) 19 kappaletta
Accompanied by His Wife (1941) 19 kappaletta
Call and I'll Come (1955) 18 kappaletta
Little Sister (1939) 18 kappaletta
Just a Nice Girl (1941) 18 kappaletta
Paris and My Love (1960) 18 kappaletta
Honey (1959) 16 kappaletta
But Not for Me (1938) 16 kappaletta
Pay Me Tomorrow (1940) 16 kappaletta
Elusive Harmony (1976) 15 kappaletta
Nobody Asked Me (1937) 15 kappaletta
Dare I Be Happy? (1943) 15 kappaletta
On the Air (1956) 14 kappaletta
For Ever and Ever (1956) 14 kappaletta
Strangers May Marry (1941) 13 kappaletta
Hospital Corridors (1958) 13 kappaletta
The Brave in Heart (1948) 13 kappaletta
Love Made the Choice (1942) 12 kappaletta
A Letter for Don (1950) 12 kappaletta
Such Is Love (1939) 12 kappaletta
It's Rumoured in the Village (1957) 11 kappaletta
One Man's Heart (1955) 11 kappaletta
Take Me with You (1944) 11 kappaletta
To Journey Together (1956) 11 kappaletta
Stolen Heart (1952) 11 kappaletta
Inherit My Heart (1962) 11 kappaletta
Wife by Arrangement (1946) 10 kappaletta
Then Come Kiss Me (1948) 10 kappaletta
With All My Worldy Goods (1938) 10 kappaletta
Cinderella After Midnight (1959) 10 kappaletta
My Sister Celia (1961) 10 kappaletta
Dearly Beloved (1944) 10 kappaletta
Wife to Christopher (1936) 10 kappaletta
Nurse Marika, Loyal in All (1957) 10 kappaletta
Sweet Adventure (1952) 10 kappaletta
Reluctant Relation (1961) 9 kappaletta
House of Conflict (1962) 9 kappaletta
A Home for Joy (1969) 9 kappaletta
Ward of Lucifer (1947) 9 kappaletta
Yet Love Remains (1938) 9 kappaletta
Do Not Go, My Love (1964) 8 kappaletta
Though Worlds Apart (1967) 8 kappaletta
Missing from Home (1968) 8 kappaletta
Dear Trustee (1958) 8 kappaletta
When Love's Beginning (1954) 8 kappaletta
Loving Is Giving (1956) 8 kappaletta
Over the Blue Mountains (1952) 8 kappaletta
The Heart Cannot Forget (1953) 8 kappaletta
Love Is My Reason (1957) 8 kappaletta
Tell Me My Fortune (1951) 8 kappaletta
Under Joint Management (1947) 8 kappaletta
The Other Linding Girl (1966) 8 kappaletta
Love Him or Leave Him (1950) 8 kappaletta
Yours to Command (1955) 8 kappaletta
And Falsely Pledge My Love (1957) 7 kappaletta
Always Yours (1941) 7 kappaletta
Across the Counter (1960) 6 kappaletta
Choose Which You Will (1949) 6 kappaletta
Mine for a Day (1951) 6 kappaletta
The Marshall Family (1967) 6 kappaletta
The Strange Quest of Nurse Anne (1964) 5 kappaletta
The Wedding Dress (1961) 5 kappaletta
One of the Family (1939) 5 kappaletta
Sweet Meadows (1963) 5 kappaletta
Dear Sir (1958) 5 kappaletta
A Ring on Her Finger (1953) 5 kappaletta
Choose the One You'll Marry (1960) 5 kappaletta
Meant for Each Other (1945) 4 kappaletta
If This Were All (1949) 4 kappaletta
Not Without You (1947) 4 kappaletta
Here I Belong (1951) 4 kappaletta
Away Went Love (1945) 4 kappaletta
Girl With a Challenge (1965) 4 kappaletta
The Rosewood Box (1970) 4 kappaletta
Corner House (1960) 3 kappaletta
Find Out the Way (1946) 3 kappaletta
After Office Hours (1939) 3 kappaletta
Her Sister's Children (1965) 3 kappaletta
Joanna at the Grange (1957) 3 kappaletta
Dangerous Loving (1963) 2 kappaletta
I'll Go with You (1940) 2 kappaletta
First Love-Last Love (1946) 2 kappaletta
No Real Relation (1953) 2 kappaletta
Thine is My Heart (1942) 2 kappaletta
At First Sight (1950) 2 kappaletta
I Will Love You Still (1949) 2 kappaletta
The Heart Must Choose (1953) 2 kappaletta
Second Marriage (1971) 2 kappaletta
The Prettiest Girl (1955) 1 kappale
Turneul (1998) 1 kappale
Thanks to Elizabeth (1944) 1 kappale
My Old Love Came (1943) 1 kappale
If You Care (1948) 1 kappale
Wish on the Moon (1949) 1 kappale
The Nostalgia Collection, Box Set (3-in-1) (1986) — Avustaja — 1 kappale

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Yleistieto

Kanoninen nimi
Burchell, Mary
Virallinen nimi
Cook, Ida
Muut nimet
Burchell, Mary (pen name)
Keene, James (pen name)
Syntymäaika
1904-08-24
Kuolinaika
1986-12-22
Sukupuoli
female
Kansalaisuus
UK
Syntymäpaikka
Sunderland, Durham, England, UK
Kuolinpaikka
London, England, UK
Asuinpaikat
Northumberland, England, UK
London, England, UK
Koulutus
Duchess' School, Alnwick
Ammatit
romance novelist
journalist
civil servant
autobiographer
Holocaust rescuer
Suhteet
Krauss, Clemens (friend)
Organisaatiot
Romantic Novelists' Association (president)
Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
Righteous among the Nations
Blue Plaque
Lyhyt elämäkerta
Ida Cook was born on 24 August 1904 at 37 Croft Avenue, Sunderland, England. With her elder sister Mary Louise Cook (1901), she attended the Duchess' School in Alnwick. Later the sisters took civil service jobs in London, and developed a passionate interest in opera.

A constant presence at Covent Garden, the pair became close to some of the greatest singers of the era; Amelia Galli-Curci, Rosa Ponselle, Tito Gobbi and Maria Callas. They also came to know the Austrian conductor Clemens Krauss, and it was through he that Cooks learned of the persecution of European Jews. In 1934, Krauss's wife asked the sisters to help a friend to leave Germany. Having accomplished this, the sisters continued the good work, pretending to be eccentric opera fanatics willing to go anywhere to hear a favourite artist. Krauss assisted them, even arranging to perform in cities they needed to visit. The sisters made repeated trips to Germany, bringing back jewellery and valuables belonging to Jewish families. This enabled Jews to satisfy British requirements as regards financial security - Jews were not allowed to leave Germany with their money. Using many techniques of evasion, including re-labelling furs with London labels, the sisters enabled 29 persons to escape from almost certain death.

The Cooks' own finances were little precarious, and when Ida obtained a contract with Mills and Boon to published her first novel in 1936, she left the Civil Service to write full time. As Mary Burchell, she became a prolific writer of romantic fiction. Her great popularity helped the success of Mills and Boon, and guaranteed substantial income after the war. For many decades, her writing supported her two passions: refugees and young opera singers. Her flat in Dolphin Square at various times housed homeless European families.

In 1950, Ida Cook wrote her autobiography: "We followed our stars", and in 1965, the Cook sisters were honoured as Righteous Gentiles by the Yad Vashem Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Authority in Israel, thus joining Oskar Schindler among others.

She helped to found and was for many years president of the Romantic Novelist's Association. As Mary Burchell, she wrote over a hundred romance novels, many of which were translated, and her most famous work is "The Warrender Saga", a series about the opera world, full of real details. She also wrote as James Keene with William Everett Cook.

Ida Cook passed away on December 22, 1986 and her sister Louise in 1991.
Erotteluhuomautus
Ida Cook also writes as Mary Burchell and James Keene (with Will Cook).

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LisaBergin | 1 muu arvostelu | Apr 12, 2023 |
Awww, so cute and a lovely big happy ending, even though I wanted to berate the girl halfway through for clinging so relentlessly to the wrong guy.
Also, I take back what I said from the previous book about Florian being a bit of a jerk. He's positively mellow in this one, five years later.

Plot summary: Marianne comes to Paris, longing for a chance to capture the man she's been in love with for years who has also recently traveled to the city. Meanwhile, she gets a job in Florian's boutique and also meets Roger (the rejected suitor of the previous book). Fashion hijinks ensue. Marianne pursues her crush, her crush pursues a model from the fashion salon, and good old Roger provides a shoulder to cry on.
What stands out to me, besides the cutesy, delicious, conclusion of the story, is the little universe that Mary Burchell manages to create at this fashion salon. It's quite endearing and lively.
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Alishadt | 1 muu arvostelu | Feb 25, 2023 |
Hmm.
This book will most appeal to you if you have a toleration for the Mr. Rochesters and M. Paul Emanuels of the world of fiction.
In other words, a romantic interest who is a bit of a jerk. Indeed, Charlotte Bronte would have been all over this plot.
There's no getting away from it. There were multiple times in this book where I sighed a little bit and thought, "Ah. So we're doing this, are we?"
The autocratic man who's rather too old for the heroine. Who keeps her guessing the whole time as to whether he dislikes her or is just indifferent (hint: it's neither).
What can I say? Mary Burchell handled it with skill and thrill.

Plot summary: Anthea is on her own in Paris, jilted by her fiancé, and with dwindling finances. A chance meeting gets her an opportunity to model at a luxurious fashion show, where she meets Florian, a prestigious dress designer. The rest is moments of catty girl drama, enigmatic conversations with her employer, dinner dates with a "just a friend" who wants to be more, and very Jane-Eyre-like amounts of concealed longing for the inscrutable employer.

If it sounds like your thing, it probably is. Yes, I gave it 5 stars. Yes, even though I wouldn’t be on board with it in real life, I really liked it and was totally invested by the end.
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Alishadt | 2 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Feb 25, 2023 |
Oh dear.
How do I rate this book? It's effective, I'll give it that. But it's also a super toxic relationship, and it pulls out some cheap narrative tricks to get the reader to root for this couple.
Sigh.
The first Mary Burchell book I read, Under the Stars of Paris, also had a fairly alpha love interest, but, for me, he didn't cross any unforgivable lines. And the sequel to that one actually featured a pretty nice guy. So far, so good.
Then I tried this first book in the Warrender series. And, oof, it's too much. Too much bullying, too much arrogance. So I'm giving it 3 stars in deference to the author's ability to weave a tight and very lively plot, because obviously it kept me reading, but... I don't really recommend it.
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Alishadt | 4 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Feb 25, 2023 |

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138
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1,410
Suosituimmuussija
#18,226
Arvio (tähdet)
½ 3.3
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62
ISBN:t
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