And Then You Came

by Ann Bridge

320 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1948

About the author

Mid twentieth-century novelist [real name, Mary Anne O'Malley] who began by exploiting the milieu of the British Foreign Office community in Peking, China, where she lived for two years with her diplomat husband. Her novels combine courtship plots with vividly-realised settings and demure social satire.

She went on to write novels which take as the background of their protagonists' emotional lives a serious investigation of modern historical developments (such as the leap by which Turkey progressed from a feudal-style government to become a modern republic in which women enjoyed equality of rights and equality of opportunity).

Ann Bridge also wrote thrillers centred on a female amateur detective, travel books, and family memoirs.

Reviews

[Susan · Rating 5 out of 5]

I know I loved this book - time travel, Scottish location. I have to find my copy and read it AGAIN!

Couldn't find my copy so I took it out via ILL. It didn't move me as much re-reading it after all this time. It still is a fascinating premise - I had just forgotten there was so much hum-drum stuff about the families involved. I'd probably change this to a 4-star