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Portrait image of Inger Frimansson Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2018)

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Frimansson, Inger

Inger Frimansson is a Swedish author born in Stockholm as Inger Wilén. Her father was an engineer. Frimansson passed her baccalaureate in Jönköping in 1965. She won a number of writing competitions while still at school, including the national school competition "The Little Noble Prize" in 1963, which allowed her to attend the Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm. She worked as a volunteer at the Jö...

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Tish (Letitia) Carberry

Gender: Female

A jolly and good-hearted middle-aged spinster, who lives on money she has inherited, and lodges with a nephew, Charlie Sands. She is the main character in a whole row of short stories (but no novels) by Mary Roberts Rinehart. Together with her friends Aggie Pilkington and Lizzie Wilkins, Tish Carberry often goes travelling, which leads to her becoming involved in various dramatic events, which...

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