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Marjorie Leet Ford


Marjorie Leet Ford is a broadcaster and writer living in San Francisco. She conceived the long-running National Public Radio series Tell Me a Story, traveling around the world to record great writers, including John Updike, Eudora Welty, Jamaica Kincaid, Raymond Carver, Roald Dahl, reading their short stories. She was also once herself an au pair in Britain.

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The Diary of an American Au Pair
Written by Marjorie Leet Ford

eBook | 352 pages | Anchor | Fiction - Contemporary Women
978-0-307-80676-5 (0-307-80676-6)

October 5, 2011 | $11.99

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The Diary of an American Au Pair
Written by Marjorie Leet Ford

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ISBN: 9780307806765
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After losing her advertising job in San Francisco and canceling her wedding (though not her engagement) an unencumbered Melissa, who harbors grand illusions about life in England, heads off to a new job as au pair to the family of a Member of Parliament. But the minorly aristocratic Haig-Ereildouns’ household falls...

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The Diary of an American Au Pair
Written by Marjorie Leet Ford

Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Anchor | Fiction - Contemporary Women
978-1-4000-3264-8 (1-4000-3264-4)

April 8, 2003 | $15.00

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The Diary of an American Au Pair
Written by Marjorie Leet Ford

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781400032648
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After losing her advertising job in San Francisco and canceling her wedding (though not her engagement) an unencumbered Melissa, who harbors grand illusions about life in England, heads off to a new job as au pair to the family of a Member of Parliament. But the minorly aristocratic Haig-Ereildouns’ household falls...

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People in the Park
Written by Marjorie Leet Ford

Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Chatto & Windus | Fiction
978-0-7011-7403-3 (0-7011-7403-X)

April 7, 2003 | $27.95



An enchanting, hilarious, idiosyncratic novel by the author of Diary of an American Au Pair, set in San Francisco’s Moscow Hill district -- it’s Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City, with dogs.


              
              



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