''Lucy Carmichael'' is a 1951 romantic drama novel by the British writer Margaret Kennedy. It was her tenth published novel. It was well-received by critics but did not repeat the success of her earlier hits '' The Constant Nymph'' and ''Escape Me Never''. It was a Literary Guild choice in America. In 2011 it was reissued by

Faber and Faber Faber and Faber Limited, usually abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in London. Published authors and poets include T. S. Eliot (an early Faber editor and director), W. H. Auden, Margaret Storey, William Golding, Samuel B ...

. Her next novel '' Troy Chimneys'' was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for 1953.Hammill p.150

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After Lucy Carmichael is jilted at the altar she slowly rebuilds her life by taking a job at an educational institute in rural

Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a county in the East Midlands of England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the east. It borders Norfolk to the south-east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south-west, Leicestershire ...

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