The Corner Shop

✍ Scribed by Lady Cynthia Asquith

• Book ID: 115331723
• Publisher: Vibhatsu
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: en-GB
• Weight: 21 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781771965088

✦ Synopsis

World-renowned cartoonist Seth returns with three new ghost stories for 2022.

Peter Wood enters a charming antiques shop owned by two young women one stormy evening. But after he returns a second time to a strange old man and a far gloomier atmosphere, and leaves with an unusual jade frog, Peter soon discovers that his purchase was worth more than he paid.

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About the Author

Lady Cynthia Mary Evelyn Asquith (1887-1960) was an English writer, now known for her ghost stories and diaries. She also wrote novels and edited a number of anthologies, as well as writing for children and on the British Royal family.

Her father was Hugo Richard Charteris, 11th Earl of Wemyss (1857 – 1937) and her mother Mary Constance Wyndham (see The Souls). In 1910, she married Herbert Asquith, son of H. H. Asquith, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916.

In 1913 she met D.H. Lawrence in Margate, and became a friend and correspondent.

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