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Celia Fremlin

Born

in Kingsbury, London, The United Kingdom

June 20, 1914

Died

June 16, 2009

Genre

Mystery & Thrillers

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Celia was born in Kingsbury, now part of London, England. She was the daughter of Heaver Fremlin and Margaret Addiscott. Her older brother, John H. Fremlin, later became a nuclear physicist. Celia studied at Somerville College, Oxford University. From 1942 to 2000 she lived in Hampstead, London. In 1942 she married Elia Goller, with whom she had three children; he died in 1968. In 1985, Celia married Leslie Minchin, who died in 1999. Her many crime novels and stories helped modernize the sensation novel tradition by introducing criminal and (rarely) supernatural elements into domestic settings. Her 1958 novel The Hours Before Dawn won the Edgar Award in 1960.

With Jeffrey Barnard, she was co-presenter of a BBC2 documentary “Night and Day” de ...more

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Average rating: 3.51 · 7,935 ratings · 1,279 reviews · 78 distinct works • Similar authors

	Uncle Paul 3.21 avg rating — 2,538 ratings — published 1959 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hours Before Dawn 3.79 avg rating — 1,769 ratings — published 1959 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Long Shadow 3.29 avg rating — 1,128 ratings — published 1975 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ghostly Stories 3.63 avg rating — 422 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Don't Go to Sleep in the Dark 3.69 avg rating — 352 ratings — published 1970 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Appointment With Yesterday 3.81 avg rating — 300 ratings — published 1972 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Jealous One 3.91 avg rating — 240 ratings — published 1965	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Trouble Makers 3.85 avg rating — 105 ratings — published 1963 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Celia Fremlin Collection 3 Books Set 3.02 avg rating — 122 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Spider-Orchid 3.83 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 1978 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“They give her tractors and things to play with instead of dolls, just to prove that girls are exactly the same as boys.
Mind you, they're a bit illogical, it seems to me, because they have never forced me to play with dolls, which I would have thought would have proved the point just as effectively.”
― Celia Fremlin, Listening in the Dusk

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“Love isn't relevant once things are really bad. They say love makes the world go round-but it doesn't, you know. Love is a luxury, and you indulge in it when things are OK. As soon as they are bad-really bad-there just isn't a place for it anymore-no place where there could be room for it”
― Celia Fremlin, Listening in the Dusk

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“It was high time Ivor got moving. It wasn’t fair to be dead and yet to hang around like this, in every room, in every corner of the house….There ought to be something like a fly-spray, a fly-spray for ghosts, a ghost-spray….”
― Celia Fremlin, The Long Shadow

tags: ghosts, hauntings

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Which contemporary English Mystery would you like to read with us during July? Please vote here by 21st June, and remember to look in the group afterwards, to see if your choice won! Good luck!

Murder at the University by Faith Martin

38 votes, 53.5%

Death Set to Music by Mark Hebden

14 votes, 19.7%

The Silver Pigs by Lindsey Davis

12 votes, 16.9%

The Jealous One by Celia Fremlin

7 votes, 9.9%

71 total votes

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