The Four Graces (22 page)

D. E. Stevenson (1892–1973) had an enormously successful writing career: between 1923 and 1970, four million copies of her books were sold in Britain and three million in the States. Her books include
Miss
Buncle's Book
,
Miss
Buncle
Married
,
The
Young
Clementina
,
The
Listening
Valley
,
The
Two
Mrs. Abbotts
, and
The
Four
Graces
. D. E. Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1892; she lived in Scotland all her life. She wrote her first book in 1923, but her second did not appear for nine years. She published
The
Four
Graces
in 1946.