Troy Chimneys

Margaret Kennedy (1896-1967) was an English novelist and playwright whose breakthrough novel The Constant Nymph (1924) became a massive bestseller, was adapted into a hit West End play starring Noël Coward, and inspired multiple films.com. She authored fifteen novels including Troy Chimneys (1953), which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and wrote plays like Escape Me Never, also successfully adapted for film, blending themes of bohemian life, family dynamics, and social convention.Somerville College Library, NY Times obituary.