Set among the mansions and tennis clubs of Surrey's richest suburb,
The Savoy Truffle is a darkly comic drama that evokes an era when
Mod gear was fab, the Shorty Nightie shocking, the coffee frothy,
and a new Beatles' single brought hysteria to the classroom. The
grey post-war years are trembling on the verge of Technicolour, and
the Blyte children are struggling to cope with the transition in
their own idiosyncratic ways: Hugh's novel is held up by yearning
for the Irish au pair; Janey moons over the mystery of men and the
enigmatic Black Mini; George wages savage war on his Enemy; and the
Moo takes refuge in his exclusive Sloppy Club. A crisis in their
parents' lives brings madness and death, a supernatural visitor and
an all-too-real tiger...The children have to confront - and conquer
- the follies of their elders with wit and invention. Patrick
Harpur is the acclaimed author of three novels and three works of
non-fiction, including Daimonic Reality, The Philosophers' Secret
Fire and Mercurius. He lives in West Dorset, worlds away from his
Surrey upbringing.
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