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Mavis Cheek

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born

Wimbledon, The United Kingdom

gender

female

website

http://www.mavischeek.co.uk

genre

Literature & Fiction

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Born in Wimbledon, now part of London, Mavis left school at 16 to do office work with Editions Alecto, a Kensington publishing company. She later moved to the firm's gallery in Albemarle Street, where she met artists such as David Hockney, Allen Jones, Patrick Caulfield and Gillian Ayres. In 1969 she married a "childhood sweetheart", Chris Cheek, a physicist, whom she had met at a meeting of the Young Communist League in New Malden, but they separated three years later. Later she lived for eleven years with the artist Basil Beattie. She returned to education in 1976, doing a two-year arts course at Hillcroft College, a further education college for women.

Although Cheek had planned to take a degree course, she turned instead to fiction writi...more

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Books by Mavis Cheek

Average rating: 3.33 · 789 ratings · 126 reviews · 20 distinct works

	Amenable Women 3.54 avg rating — 80 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Mrs Fyttons Country Life 3.42 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 2000 — 9 editions	My rating:
	The Sex Life Of My Aunt 3.17 avg rating — 78 ratings — 11 editions	My rating:
	Yesterday's Houses 3.37 avg rating — 52 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Janice Gentle Gets Sexy 3.16 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 1993 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Aunt Margaret's Lover 3.47 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1994 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Three Men On A Plane 3.46 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1998 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Patrick Parker's Progress 3.05 avg rating — 37 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Pause Between Acts 3.45 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1988 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Dog Days 3.52 avg rating — 25 ratings — 7 editions	My rating: