Monica Dickens schuf Erzählungen, die das alltägliche Leben und menschliche Beziehungen scharfsinnig beobachteten, oft basierend auf ihren eigenen Erfahrungen. Ihr Schreiben dringt in das Innenleben der Charaktere ein und offenbart ihre Freuden und Nöte mit einer authentischen Stimme. Dickens hatte zum Ziel, ihre Leser zu unterhalten und zur Erkenntnis des eigenen Lebens in ihren Geschichten anzuregen, wodurch sie eine fesselnde und nachvollziehbare literarische Welt schuf. Ihr unverwechselbarer Stil zeichnet sich durch Direktheit und eine tiefe Fähigkeit aus, die Feinheiten der menschlichen Natur einzufangen.
Dora is invited out to America to help set up a home of rest for horses. When she leaves and is given a horse to take back to Follyfoot, she can't believe her luck. One of the horses falls ill. And it looks like the same epidemic that is sweeping America . Has Dora's horse brought the disease to England?
Leonard's life has never seemed safer or better. Then through the door comes Toby, he brings with him the excitement of change but he is not what he appears to be, and in the end brings tragedy.
Lieutenant-Commander, the hero of this novel, is axed from the Navy at the age of 36, one of many thousands obliged to re-plan their lives as the result of cuts in the armed services. A widower with a small daughter, he has no experience or knowledge outside submarines and the Royal Navy. His whole life had been that of a sailor since he joined up direct from school at the beginning of the war. This is not only the story of his struggles and adventures when he tries to find some way of earning his living; it is the story of his difficulty in adjusting himself to an unfamiliar civilian world. Monica Dickens's novel is the story of all such men in any of the services who find themselves so rudely thrust into the ordinary life of their country which, though they have served unselfishly, they find they are ill-equipped to live in. Written with the lighter humorous touch of some of her earlier books, it is a sympathetic presentation of the human side of one of those mass adjustments forced on society by the changing nature of the world and its affairs.
Richard Hayes, 26 -ročný Londýnčan, je diplomovaným ošetrovateľom na voľnej nohe. Najímajú ho k zomierajúcim starcom, retardovaným deťom, hollywoodským hviezdam absolvujúcim plastiku v utajení .... Má svoje povolanie rád, rozumie mu, no ešte radšej má dievča, ktoré sa však nechce viazať. Lenže osud rozhodne inak.
