''I Met a Lady'' is a 1961 novel by the British writer

Howard Spring Howard Spring (10 February 1889 – 3 May 1965) was a Welsh author and journalist who wrote in English. He began his writing career as a journalist but from 1934 produced a series of best-selling novels for adults and children. The most su ...

.Watson & Willison p.741 During the

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a boy is sent from

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to stay in

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due to improve his health. There he meets an unusual group of characters who influence him strongly and intertwine with his life over the coming decades.

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Bibliography

* George Watson & Ian R. Willison. ''The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, Volume 4''. CUP, 1972. 1961 British novels Novels by Howard Spring Novels set in Manchester Novels set in Cornwall William Collins, Sons books {{1960s-novel-stub