6 Novels by Nina Bawden
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Overview: Nina Bawden CBE (born January 19, 1925, London) was a popular British novelist as well as a children’s writer. Her mother was a teacher and her father a marine. Bawden attended Somerville College, Oxford, where she gained a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
Genre: General Fiction/Mystery
Change Here for Babylon: When Tom Harrington embarks on an affair with the beautiful and affectionate Emily Hunter, he has no idea how seriously his life will be affected. At first, it is a straightforward deception, requiring only the usual expected tasks of lying to their respective spouses and hiding their relationship from the public eye. Before a year is out, however, Tom and Emily’s love has somehow become the epicenter of a quickly unraveling web of treachery, jealousy, intrigue, and even murder.
As the facts become muddied and the casualties pile up, Tom tries to make sense of it all: his own responsibility and guilt; his mistress’s secrets and her husband’s slick exterior; his wife’s desperation and confusion. But the more control he tries to take, the less he finds he has, and the situation spirals ever quicker.
Change Here for Babylon is a gripping story of misplaced emotion and misguided action. It grabs the reader from the very start, racing along with the suspense of a brilliant crime novel and moving with grim inevitability towards its surprising conclusion.
In Honour Bound: In Honour Bound is the exciting and very tautly written story of a hero who fell, not among thieves, but among his own friends. Johnny Prothero has everything. He was brought up in the closed, bright world of influence and wealth, and nourished on the old-fashioned virtues of duty, loyalty and courage. Up to the grim point at which this story opens, his life has perfectly suited him. He has had a splendid war, has made a good marriage, and his future seems laid out invitingly before him like a clean map – yet, in the first scene of this book, he is standing in the dock accused of an ignominious crime. Is it Johnny or the times that are out of joint?
This is a penetrating and gripping study of a man who had everything except the ability to grub in the squalid backyard of the 1950s; a study of the damage a man does to himself and to others in the struggle to adapt himself to a post-war, expense-account world for which his upbringing has not fitted him. The story, with its wide range of characters and varied scenes in London and the home counties, is exceptionally well developed and mounts steadily in interest and tension to a superbly ironical conclusion.
Just Like A Lady: Lucy’s trouble is that the exercise of her ambition is trammelled by the letter, though not the spirit, of such contemporary morality as has been distilled to her. Quite intelligent and attractive enough to get on under her own steam, her desire to live in a manner she is not accustomed to and her fascinated preoccupation with the ‘marvellous secret society’ of rich and educated people, side-track her into some very false moves, such as her marriage with the unspeakable Jebb.
The Odd Flamingo: Beautiful Rose Blacker was a pathetic figure when she came to tell Celia Stone that she was pregnant by Humphrey, Celia’s husband. Rose produced love letters from Humphrey which seemed to be conclusive proof of his guilt.
Fearful for the future of her family, Celia sent for Will Hunt, her old flame and friend. Will tried to help, but the murder which soon followed only added to the network of troubles around Humphrey. Will’s seemingly ineffective enquiries brought him in touch with some members of that disreputable little club called The Odd Flamingo, whence more trouble sprang.
The Solitary Child: The Solitary Child is a story of violent death and suspicion. Harriet becomes engaged to James Random, a gentleman farmer, monied but unpretentious. But his first wife, Eva, had died in what were called ‘unforgettable circumstances’; James was charged with murdering her and was acquitted. Breaking the news to her mother of her engagement was Harriet’s first ordeal: facing Maggie, the solitary child who was James’ and Eva’s daughter was more complex. Suspicions are not always cleared away by a verdict of ‘not guilty’. Here the suspicion which Harriet found surrounding her new home was so oppressive it distorted the relationships of the people involved into a nightmare climax.
Who Calls the Tune: An extremely mesmerising woman, Venetia holds everyone she comes across enraptured. So when Venetia is found dead in suspicious circumstances the question is: exactly who would want to kill the beautiful Venetia?
Those who were close to Venetia find themselves forced together as the web around this compelling woman rapidly unfolds. Suspicion and mistrust mount to boiling point as events reveal more and more about the kind of woman Venetia really was.
Who Calls the Tune oozes the claustrophobic atmosphere it creates until the reader feels as though they are ensconced amongst the pages, alongside this quirky cast of characters. This novel is a classic murder mystery which will keep you guessing until the final pages.
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