Audrey Erskine Lindop


Audrey Erskine Lindop was an English writer of various forms of fiction, including crime, mainstream and historical. She was active from 1948 to 1970. 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