Come Home Charlie and Face Them (Coronet Books) [Paperback]

Praise for R F Delderfield:

'Mr Delderfield's manner is easy, modest, heartwarming' (Evening Standard )

'R F Delderfield is a born storyteller' ( Sunday Mirror )

'Sheer, wonderful storytelling' (Chicago Tribune )

'It is always a pleasure to read R F Delderfield, because he never seems to be ashamed of writing well . . . Today he is a bestseller wherever English language books are read' (Books and Bookmen )

'Highly recommended. Combines tension with a splendid sense of atmosphere and vivid characterisation. An excellent read' (Sunday Express )

'He built an imposing artistic social history that promises to join those of his great forebears in the long, noble line of the English novel. His narratives belong in a tradition that goes back to John Galsworthy and Arnold Bennett' (Life Magazine )

Charlie Pritchard has big ideas, and his job as a bank clerk certainly isn't enough to satisfy him - he dreams of a life of luxury with the delectable Delphine. Soon he finds himself sucked into a plan to rob the very bank he works in. It begins as a joke but quickly becomes dangerously real.

R F Delderfield was born in South London in 1912. On leaving school he joined the Exmouth Chronicle newspaper as a junior reporter, where he went on to become Editor. From there he began to write stage plays and then became a highly successful novelist, renowned for brilliantly portraying slices of English life. With the publication of his first saga, A Horseman Riding By, he became one of Britain's most popular authors. Many of his bestselling novels were later adapted for television. He died in 1973.