Publishers of the books by DOREEN LOUIE WEST about
her Oxfordshire family between the years 1910 and 1953.
LOUIE: A Country Lady
by
Doreen Louie
West
Set against the backcloth of two World Wars and farming as it was
in rural Oxfordshire, this is the true story of Louie between 1910 and 1941
as told by her daughter, Doreen. Louie was a farmer’s daughter and was
destined to marry a farmer. She was a strong resourceful lady and, as well as
bringing up five children, was responsible for much of the daily running of
the farm. As the years passed her husband, Algy, became increasingly
bad-tempered and difficult to live with and as war approached Louie and her
children had to make some life changing decisions.
ISBN:
0-9531117-0-9
ISBN 13:
9780953111701
Retail price:
£6.99 per paperback copy.
LOUIE: An
Oxford Lady
by
Doreen Louie
West
The sequel to LOUIE: A Country Lady.
Continuing the
story of Louie and her family between 1943 and 1953 as they made their way in
life during the harrowing war years and the rationed post-war years and
although life was hard they never lost their sense of humour. Racing
motorcycles, mechanical elephants and wayward cars and ponies made sure there
was never a dull moment. Louie ran a guesthouse in Oxford for a while and
then moved on to other ingenious ways of earning a living.
ISBN: 0-9531117-1-7
ISBN 13: 9870953111718
Retail price: £7.50 per
paperback copy.
“When Doreen West turned her childhood
memories into a book, it became a bestseller. But even more remarkable is
that the world she recalls, one of innocence tempered by hardship, still
existed only a generation ago”
DAILY MAIL
“A growing
readership for rural book that skips the love interest, a sex-free tale of
country
folk”
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
“This book
conveys the innocence to be found in the lost world of our recent past”
THE LADY
“A
well written story”
FARMER’S WEEKLY
(Louie: A Country Lady) “Fans
of the Larkrise stories by Flora Thompson will enjoy this book, which is easy
to read.”
(Louie: An Oxford Lady) “The strength
of the family to ‘pull together’, combined with the gentle humour injected throughout the book, give it a strong
‘feel good factor’.As with the former ‘Morse’ TV series filmed in the City,
fellow Oxonians will recognise many of the places mentioned, which only
served to accentuate interest, and bring it to life even more”
THE FOUR SHIRES
EXCERPTS FROM READERS’ LETTERS:
“I enjoyed Louie A Country Lady immensely. I foundit an emotionalread and was unable
to put it down once I had started”
“I picked up at random a small book from our local library,
Louie: A Country Lady, and was quite enchanted with it…I feel it is a piece
of social history…With thanks for an excellent read, no sentence warranted
skipping and I couldn’t wait to read on.”
“I
can’t tell you, although I’ll try, how much I have enjoyed my two books. They
are exactly my type of literature, describing people, places and events in
our dear old England…I feel somewhat deprived now I have finished them both.
They are just the sort of books I will have pleasure in re-reading in future
years though”
“…your new book. Fantastic! I have started to read it, fatal, it
is such a good flowing story that I need great will power not to abandon the
jobs that have to be done”
“I felt I must write to you to express my delight in reading your
second book about your mother ‘Louie’. I just could not put it down, I kept
picking it up and reading another chapter”
“I
can’t tell you, although I’ll try, how much I have enjoyed my two books. They
are exactly my type of literature, describing people, places and events in
our dear old England…I feel somewhat deprived now I have finished them both.
They are just the sort of books I will have pleasure in re-reading in future
years though”
