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My unfounded assumption is that she is, like many authors, releasing her own back-list. (Since she is a few weeks short of 96, more likely her family.) She doesn't seem to have an on-line presence, making it difficult to verify.
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Ms. Stewart lives in the UK. She sent a note to her readers through her publishers:
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I am well into my nineties now, and I am afraid I have almost forgotten how to write. But if a few vague memories will do, here they are. My first novel was called MURDER FOR CHARITY, and was sent off hopefully to publishers who now prefer to forget that they turned it down. But they were probably right, and their comments did me a power of good. I cut off the last third of the story, re-wrote it, re-named it MADAM, WILL YOU TALK? And sent it to Hodder and Stoughton. Some half century later I am still with my dear Hodder and Stoughton, and can only add that I love the new cover style, and I hope that it will attract a new generation to read my books. MS
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Amazon.co.uk has a number of Mary Stewart ebooks, all published by Hodder. Well, except for this one. Smashwords. There's one review and it's a one-star. There were numerous complaints about errors and at least one missing page. And this:
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They have they translated 'colour', 'honour', 'centre', and many other words to American (perhaps OK, but a little warning would be appreciated)
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I guess the Americanized spelling is understandable...if it were copied from an American copy of the book(s).