Come Home Charlie & Face Them
A classic heist novel full of 20s nostalgia
Author: R.F. Delderfield Series: Coronet Books
The classic heist story from one of the most popular authors of the 20th century: a bestseller wherever books were read.
Charlie Pritchard has big ideas, and his job as a bank clerk certainly isn't enough to satisfy him - he dreams of a life of luxury with the delectable Dolphin. Soon he finds himself sucked into a plan to rob the very bank he works in. It begins as a joke but quickly becomes dangerously real.
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The classic heist story from one of the most popular authors of the 20th century: a bestseller wherever books were read.
Charlie Pritchard has big ideas, and his job as a bank clerk certainly isn't enough to satisfy him - he dreams of a life of luxury with the delectable Dolphin. Soon he finds himself sucked into a plan to rob the very bank he works in. It begins as a joke but quickly becomes dangerously real.
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The real motive wasn't love and it wasn't greed . . . It rose to the surface out of a grey pit of boredom.
When Charlie Pritchard is shown a way to escape his mundane and monotonous life as a small-town bank clerk in a tiny Welsh resort in the 1920s, and live instead in wealth with beautiful Delphine, he knows that this is his only chance. And he has to take it - even if the plan is to rob his own bank.However, as zero hour approaches he realises that there is far more at stake than he had ever imagined, and that there will be no escape, no escape at all.Critic Reviews
“'Sheer, wonderful storytelling'”
Mr Delderfield's manner is easy, modest, heartwarming - Evening Standard
R F Delderfield is a born storyteller - Sunday MirrorSheer, wonderful storytelling - Chicago TribuneIt is always a pleasure to read R F Delderfield, because he never seems to be ashamed of writing well - Books and Bookmen'He built an imposing artistic social history that promises to join those of his great forebears in the long, noble line of the English novel. His narratives belong in a tradition that goes back to John Galsworthy and Arnold Bennett' Life Magazine - Life MagazineAbout the Author
R.F. Delderfield was born in South London in 1912. On leaving school he joined the Exmouth Chronicle newspaper as a junior reporter, where he went on to become Editor. From there he began to write stage plays and then became a highly successful novelist, renowned for brilliantly portraying slices of English life. With the publication of his first saga, A HORSEMAN RIDING BY, he became one of Britain's most popular authors. Many of his bestselling novels were later adapted for television. He died in 1972.
The real motive wasn't love and it wasn't greed . . . It rose to the surface out of a grey pit of boredom.When Charlie Pritchard is shown a way to escape his mundane and monotonous life as a small-town bank clerk in a tiny Welsh resort in the 1920s, and live instead in wealth with beautiful Delphine, he knows that this is his only chance. And he has to take it - even if the plan is to rob his own bank.However, as zero hour approaches he realises that there is far more at stake than he had ever imagined, and that there will be no escape, no escape at all.
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