THE DINNER PARTY by Gwyneth Lambert
When Caroline arranges a dinner party, an extra person, invited by her husband
John, increases the number to thirteen.
Johannah, a particularly superstitious guest, upsets the evening by her warning
that before the year is out one of those seated around the table will surely
die.
This prediction is ridiculed by the other guests, but strangely the night of the
dinner party appears to be a turning point in the lives of each and every one
of them.
As all the guests’ lives unfold during the following year, each unique but some interlinking with
others, the intriguing question is: will anyone be missing from Caroline’s special dinner party twelve months on?
Gwyneth Lambert
Born in 1917, the author was at first home educated and then became one of the Protestant pupils attending the Catholic Convent School in Putney; she went on to attend
Wallington County School. Her working career started with the Prudential Assurance Company
involved in health work.
She joined the Women’s Land Army in 1942, returning to her work in Torquay after the end of the World War II in 1946. With the arrival of the new National Health Service she became a civil servant in Wallington for a year before being sent to the
Canning Town office to help set up the new scheme. It was here she met her
husband.
Throughout her life Gwyneth Lambert has always taken a keen interest in writing
and this is now her third published novel following Town Girl and Round and Round the Orchard, the latter being particularly influenced by her own wartime experiences.
