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Valerie Helene Mendes (née Barnett, born October 1939) is an English novelist and poet. Mendes is best known for her teenage fiction novels, Girl in the Attic, Coming of Age, Lost and Found and The Drowning, and for her historical novels for adults: Larkswood, Daddy’s Girl and Beatrice and Alexander.
Valerie is still a meticulous Editor, but only of her own work. Her imprint, VMBooks, has published her new historical novels, Daddy’s Girl and Beatrice and Alexander, her Memoir, Not Only But Also, and her collected poems, The Gathering.
Flight of the Lark, the sequel to Valerie Mendes’ best-selling Larkswood, reunites us with the Hamilton family at the immediate outbreak of the Second World War. Louisa plans to train as a nurse in Edward’s brand new hospital. Thomas longs to grow wings as a fighter pilot with the RAF. But they cannot predict the problems they will have to ...
Larkswood. Larkswood House is home to the Hamilton children – Edward, Cynthia and Harriet – who enjoy the freedom and excitement of privilege. But in the glorious English summer of 1896, with absent parents and a departed governess, disaster strikes the family, leaving it cruelly divided.
They become an obsession, leading Eleanor from Somerville College Oxford and her home in Woodstock to a cottage in Cornwall. Who does she meet there? Will he change her life? And can she keep the promise she made in 1936 to the man she used to call her darling Daddy? “A really compelling read.” Brenda Stones, Author and Publisher.
Not Only But Also: A Memoir. After more than sixty years in publishing, Valerie Mendes steps aside from her own fiction to offer us a unique glimpse into the professional, pioneering and private strands of her life.
Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Children's. edit data. Valerie Mendes started writing when she was six. Seventy years later, she looks half her age, feels twenty-one – and is still obsessed with telling a good story.
