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"The mere habit of writing, of constantly keeping
at it, of never giving up, ultimately teaches you how to write." Gabriel Fielding
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The
Birthday King
The Birthday King describes Hitler's Germany from the inside of one wealthy
industrialist family, part Jewish and part Catholic, entangled in political and financial alliance, frought with petty jealousies,
treacheries, fears, and aspirations.
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In
The Time of Greenbloom
In the Time of Greenbloom begins the story of two children, bound by
nearly an innocent bond of understanding and love. They are together only briefly, but in each other's thoughts always. Through
all the quiet days of their childhood, a blind evil is gradually evoked. It never seems quite real. Then suddenly it strikes
and all the aloof adults are as frighteningly ineffectual as the children themselves.
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Brotherly Love
This book belongs to David: the eldest son, the most beloved, idolized by his mother and
by young John. David is following the path set out by his mother - into the Church. He cannot, however, follow as obediently
in spirit. His early rebellions are small: when he drowns his mothers highly prized cat, he is forgiven. When he takes over
the girl John has brought down for the weekend, brotherly love is strained, but David's charm wins all. When David promises
that the woman will never set foot in the house vicarage again, Mother prays for him in thanksgiving. Deftly, with palpable
supense, the drama builds; incident on incident until David's final tragedy which leaves a permanent, unforgettable mark on
the Blaydons - and the reader.
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Pretty
Doll Houses Pretty Doll Houses is a study of childhood and adolescence written with dazzling charm
and insight. It is set in the 1920s and 1930s, and although the form is fictional, the content seems even more autobiographical
then the earlier novels. He writes of the house Tullagee, in Sussex, where his early years were spent; of the family's life
in the Yarm-on-the-Trees where his father was vicar; and of the adolescent years in Anglesey, where John Blaydon's mother,
the self willed Kathy, decended from the novelist Henry Fielding (from whom Gabriel Fielding has taken his own pen name) contrives
to rule her family, including her ailing husband, and to indulge her religious instincts with many local church activities
although still yielding to a romantic association with a former lover.
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Gentlemen In Their
Season
The approach of this extraordinary novel to marriage is via its converse - adultery.
It provides thereby a tale that in application is almost scandalously true, yet also highly comic - especially since the gleams
of lust and desire that emanate from its chracters far surpass their skill in performance.
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The Women of Guinea
Lane
The Woman of Guinea Lane follows the hero of earlier Fielding novels,
John Blaydon. He has just begun work as a junior hospital doctor at the Guinea Lane Hospital, under the eye of a formidable
woman doctor concerned with her own research into dying patients. His growing involvment with the life of the hospital, his
tender relationship with the enchanting Minna, his encounter with the Major Bellayr, a sinister figure who may hold the key
to events in his own past, all are conveyed with the sense of detail and eye for atmosphere of a born novelist.
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New Queens for Old,
A novella and nine stories
The meticulous, intricately intelligent
tone of these stories gives Gabriel Fielding's whole collection a uniquely astringent flavor. The range, both in tone and
subject matter, is wide - including detailed, lucid investigations into the implications of men's actions in strange locales.
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Eight Days
William Chance, a prison doctor and recent convert to Catholicism, comes for a holiday in an
international zone of North Africa.Here, in this highly charged, sinister and most un-Catholic atmosphere, his faith and safety
are challenged. Eight Days is a book conceived in a jungle of evil aqnd illicit love. In a symbolic way all the people
are blown sky-high in the noisy fireworks of the last day- and light succeeds.
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The
Frog Prince and Other Poems. Volume of poems published in 1952 Twenty-Eight Poems. Volume of poems published in 1955
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Through Streets Broad
and Narrow In this sequel to the acclaimed In the Time of Greenbloom, John Blaydon
"runs head on into the paradox of Ireland, attempts to solve it single-handed and gets his heart and most of his head
broken in the process. The manner of his undoing is told in a series of brilliant pictures, evocative, authentic, macabre,
or hilariously funny. . . . Mr. Fielding has written an original novel of vitality, wit, and compassionate insight."—Isabelle
Mallet, New York Times Book Review
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GabrielFielding.com
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The Official Website of Gabriel Fielding
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