She died in Florence of a stroke, aged 60. A lonely young girl living on a remote farm with her work obsessed-parents cares for an old and battered wooden horse with such devotion that it comes to life. Her final novel, Vita Nuova in the Marshal Guarnaccia series, was posthumously published in 2008. In 1991 she won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize for Josie Smith and Eileen, the second book in the series. The Enchanted Horse Library Binding Octoby Magdalen Nabb (Author), Julek Heller (Illustrator) 64 ratings Library Binding 6.87 4 Used from 2.89 Paperback 9.34 13 Used from 3.65 14 New from 4. She also wrote the Josie Smith books for children and did occasional journalistic pieces for English, German and Italian papers. She was admired by and became friends with the writer Georges Simenon.

She lived near enough to the Carabinieri station at Pitti to stroll there regularly and have a chat with the marshal, who kept her up to date on crime in the city. All her stories take place in Florence, which she describes as a 'very secret city'. Her first book, Death of an Englishman, was first published in 1981. It was in Montelupo that she met the model for 'Marshal Guarnaccia'. There, she continued to work on pottery in Montelupo, a pottery town near Florence, and began writing. In 1975 she moved to Florence in Italy with her son, Liam, even though she didn't speak Italian.

O元471571W Page_number_confidence 73.28 Pages 118 Partner Innodata Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20200823152739 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 192 Scandate 20200815215308 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780007317332 Tts_version 4.Magdalen Nabb (16 January 1947 – 18 August 2007) was a British author, best known for the Marshal Guarnaccia detective novels.īorn in Church, a village near Accrington in Lancashire as Magdalen Nuttal, she was educated at the Convent Grammar School, Bury, before going on to art college in Manchester, where she studied arts and pottery, which she taught in an art school.

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