# A Far Cry From Kensington

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- Book: [A Far Cry From Kensington](https://www.bookquiver.com/muriel-spark/a-far-cry-from-kensington) ([A Far Cry From Kensington.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/muriel-spark/a-far-cry-from-kensington.md))
- Authors: [Muriel Spark](https://www.bookquiver.com/muriel-spark)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4010-874-3
- Pages: 192
- Published: 1999-10-28
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Mrs Hawkins, a fat young war widow worked for a mad, near-bankrupt publisher in 1950s London. Looking back on shady literary doings and a deadly enemy, anonymous letters, blackmail and suicide, the thin and successful Mrs Hawkins recalls how she came through it all.