Audrey Erskine-Lindop

Audrey Erskine Lindop (26 December 1920, London –7 November 1986, Isle of Wight) was an English writer of various forms of fiction, including crime, mainstream and historical. She was active from 1948 to 1970.

Possibly her best known novel is I Start Counting, narrated by a teenage girl, which won the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière in 1967, and was later filmed with Jenny Agutter. Other novels which have been filmed are I Thank A Fool and The Singer Not the Song.

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