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.[1] She was married to the writer Dudley Leslie with whom she sometimes collaborated.

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.

Selected novels

• Soldiers' Daughters Never Cry (1948)
• The Tall Headlines (1950)
• The Singer Not the Song (1953)
• I Thank a Fool (1958)
• Nicola (1959)
• The Way to the Lantern (1961)
• I Start Counting (1966)
• Sight Unseen (1969)
• Journey Into Stone (1972)
• The Self-Appointed Saint (1975)

Filmography

• Blanche Fury (1948) - screenwriter
• Tall Headlines (1952) - screenwriter, story by
• The Rough and the Smooth (1959) - screenwriter
• The Singer Not the Song (1961) - story by
• I Thank a Fool (1962) - story by
• I Start Counting (1970) - story by
• Danger on Dartmoor (1980) - screenwriter, story by[2]

References

1. "Audrey Erskine-Lindop". Retrieved 7 May 2013.
2. "Audrey Erskine-Lindop". BFI. Retrieved 10 November 2018.

External links

• Audrey Erskine Lindop on IMDb