Sing Me Who You Are

Skill, subtlety and stylistic assurance ... her moral comedy illumines life. – Daily Telegraph

Harriet Cooper bumps up a rutted lane in a Hillman crammed with everything she owns. She has come to claim her inheritance – a large green bus – left to her by her aunt, and moves in with two cats to live a frugal life, much to the chagrin of her cousin who has inherited the rest of the estate.

This is a timely reissue of a 1960s novel that deals with the lingering trauma of the Second World War and the dark secrets that families carry, as well as being an early advocate of environmental issues, which chime with such resonance fifty years later.

Part of a curated collection of forgotten works by early to mid-century women writers, the British Library Women Writers series highlights the best middlebrow fiction from the 1910s to the 1970s, offering escapism, popular appeal and plenty of period detail to amuse, surprise and inform.

Elizabeth Berridge (1919–2009) was a novelist, journalist and critic. Her 1964 novel, Across the Common, won Best Novel of the Year in the Yorkshire Post and was serialized by the BBC. Two earlier novels were also serialized. Sing Me Who You Are was first published in 1967.