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Sunday Morning
Ray Connolly first became knownfor his weekly interviews in theEvening Standard in the latesixties; later he was Atticus onThe Sunday Times. Among hisfilm and television credits areThat'll be the Day, Stardust,Lytton's Diary, Forever Young, adocumentary on James Dean andPerfect Scoundrels, while hisnovels include Trick or Treat?and Newsdeath.SUNDAY MORNINGSet against the London media world of the last twenty-five years,Sunday Morning is a stunningly powerful novel of passion, ambitionand mystery; a tale of intertwined lives and complex relationships.Towering above all is Hudson, the handsome, enigmatic, lonelyyoung American who draws everyone together, builds a mediaempire, and falls hopelessly but tragically in love.
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First published April 1, 1
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Ray Connolly
61 books44 followersRay Connolly grew up in Lancashire, England. After graduating from the London School of Economics he began a career in journalism, and wrote a weekly interview column for the London Evening Standard, concentrating mainly on popular culture and music. Since then he has written for the Sunday Times, The Times, the Daily Telegraph, the Observer and the Daily Mail. Many of his interviews with members of the Beatles have been republished in his eBook, The Ray Connolly Beatles Archive.
His first novel, A Girl Who Came To Stay, was published in 1973. Several other novels followed, including Newsdeath, Sunday Morning, Shadows On A Wall and Kill For Love.
Working with producer David Puttnam he wrote the original screenplays for the films That’ll Be the Day and Stardust, and wrote and directed the feature length documentary James Dean: The First American Teenager.
He has also written for television, most notably the series Lytton’s Diary and Perfect Scoundrels, and the TV films Forever Young and Defrosting The Fridge, and worked with Sir George Martin on the documentary trilogy about music The Rhythm of Life.
For BBC radio he wrote Lost Fortnight, about Raymond Chandler in Hollywood, and Unimaginable, which concerned the twenty four hours around the death of John Lennon, whom he was due to see on the day the former Beatle was murdered.
In 2010 he adapted one strand of his novel Love Out Of Season as the radio play God Bless Our Love, while his novella about the Beatles, Sorry, Boys, You Failed The Audition, will be broadcast by BBC Radio 4 in 2013.
In 2011 he published his Christmas short story Let Nothing You Dismay as an eBook on Amazon. Others will soon follow.
Currently working on a screenplay for a movie about Dusty Springfield, he is married and lives in London.
His first novel, A Girl Who Came To Stay, was published in 1973. Several other novels followed, including Newsdeath, Sunday Morning, Shadows On A Wall and Kill For Love.
Working with producer David Puttnam he wrote the original screenplays for the films That’ll Be the Day and Stardust, and wrote and directed the feature length documentary James Dean: The First American Teenager.
He has also written for television, most notably the series Lytton’s Diary and Perfect Scoundrels, and the TV films Forever Young and Defrosting The Fridge, and worked with Sir George Martin on the documentary trilogy about music The Rhythm of Life.
For BBC radio he wrote Lost Fortnight, about Raymond Chandler in Hollywood, and Unimaginable, which concerned the twenty four hours around the death of John Lennon, whom he was due to see on the day the former Beatle was murdered.
In 2010 he adapted one strand of his novel Love Out Of Season as the radio play God Bless Our Love, while his novella about the Beatles, Sorry, Boys, You Failed The Audition, will be broadcast by BBC Radio 4 in 2013.
In 2011 he published his Christmas short story Let Nothing You Dismay as an eBook on Amazon. Others will soon follow.
Currently working on a screenplay for a movie about Dusty Springfield, he is married and lives in London.
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November 10, 2011
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In 1978 a young Australian news photographer narrowly escapes death when the Rhodesian army patrol he is with is attacked by guerrillas. Hiding in the forest, he discovers a remote, abandoned mansion. Inside the house he finds photographs and the forgotten belongings of a beautiful girl. The following day, he is befriended by an albino African boy and shown the girl’s grave. She was, he learns, Nicola Reynolds, a vivacious and wealthy young woman who had died mysteriously eleven years earlier.
Meanwhile in London a newspaper, Sunday Morning, is being launched by American James Hudson and his best friend Richard Blake, who is also the paper’s editor. Back in the Sixties both men once loved Nicola, as did Richard’s wife, Emily, when they were all ambitious young people starting their careers. But what kind of woman was Nicola Reynolds? And how did she die?
Sunday Morning is a complex and moving story of shifting relationships, betrayal and murder, set against unfolding world events.
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In 1978 a young Australian news photographer narrowly escapes death when the Rhodesian army patrol he is with is attacked by guerrillas. Hiding in the forest, he discovers a remote, abandoned mansion. Inside the house he finds photographs and the forgotten belongings of a beautiful girl. The following day, he is befriended by an albino African boy and shown the girl’s grave. She was, he learns, Nicola Reynolds, a vivacious and wealthy young woman who had died mysteriously eleven years earlier.
Meanwhile in London a newspaper, Sunday Morning, is being launched by American James Hudson and his best friend Richard Blake, who is also the paper’s editor. Back in the Sixties both men once loved Nicola, as did Richard’s wife, Emily, when they were all ambitious young people starting their careers. But what kind of woman was Nicola Reynolds? And how did she die?
Sunday Morning is a complex and moving story of shifting relationships, betrayal and murder, set against unfolding world events.
From http://www.rayconnolly.co.uk/pages/bo...
March 31, 2019
A most enjoyable holiday read .
December 25, 2013
Great tale spanning a decade and the ups and downs of four friends who are involved in the publishing field. Their trials and tribulations, loves and loss's span from Rhodesia to London ; in a moving but ultimately somewhat depressing ending. Nonetheless a great read.
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