Three Men on a Plane
By (Author) Mavis Cheek
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
1st August 2005
Main
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Paperback
272
Width 126mm, Height 197mm, Spine 18mm
200g
Pamela Pryor's son has, at last, left home. She feels free but also strangely restless. There have been three significant men in her life - Peter, her ex-husband; Douglas, a style guru; and Dean, a handsome younger man - all of whom have begun to think of Pamela in romantic terms once more.But Pamela is enjoying her independence and wants to get to know herself again. Which of the three suitors (if any) should Pamela choose
Mavis Cheek was born and grew up in Wimbledon. She failed her eleven plus (twice!) and was put in the B stream of a secondary modern school, where she tried, completely unsuccessfully, to learn to become a good and dutiful secretary. Instead, she left school at sixteen with no qualifications and immediately began working for Editions Alecto, the contemporary art publishers, where she worked with British and American artists such as David Hockney, Allen Jones, Bridget Riley, Patrick Caulfield and George Segal and was part of the team running Alecto's gallery in Albemarle Street, at the heart of the London art market. After twelve happy years at Editions Alecto, she left to go to Hillcroft College for Women from where she graduated in Arts with distinction. She then had her daughter, Bella, and began her writing career in earnest, being blessed in this by her complete lack of qualifications to do anything else. Journalism and travel writing were her first successes.