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________________________ A JOYFUL 40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF A
COMING-OF-AGE CLASSIC ________________________ 'There are few
modern tales of first love and its disillusions that are as
thoroughly realised, as brilliantly lewd, and as hilariously
satisfying to men and women of all ages as this one' - Rachel Cusk
Eighteen-year-old Katherine - bright, stylish, frustratedly
suburban - doesn't know how her life will change when the brilliant
Jacob Goldman first offers her a place at university. When she
enters the Goldmans' rambling bohemian home, presided over by the
beatific matriarch Jane, she realises that Jacob and his family are
everything she has been waiting for. But when a romantic
entanglement ends in tears, Katherine is forced into exile from the
family she loves most. And her journey back into the fold, after
more than a decade away, will yield all kinds of delightful
surprises... ________________________ 'The perfect book' - Meg
Mason 'The best possible company in this difficult world' - Ann
Patchett 'A daisy bomb of joy' - Maria Semple 'Funny, charming,
teeming with life, and real' - Nick Hornby 'I adored it ...
Redolent of classics like The Constant Nymph with both its true
voice and wonderfully sage and sanguine heroine' - Sophie Dahl 'One
of those books that when people have read it, they just push it
into your hands silently: "You have to read this book, you will
love this book." There's no other book I love more' - Caroline
O'Donoghue, Sentimental Garbage 'Reading it again is as comforting
as eating toast and Marmite between clean, fresh sheets' - Rachel
Cooke, Sunday Times 'Think Brideshead Revisited set in the 1970s,
only sexier and much funnier. It kills me that I didn't read it at
university, when I really needed it' - Meg Rosoff, New Statesman
AN ASTOUNDING NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF FRANKIE AND STANKIE AND
BROTHER OF THE MORE FAMOUS JACK ____________________ 'A dazzling
achievement. It's beautifully-written, deftly-plotted and moves
skilfully from domestic drama to global themes and back again' -
Daily Express 'Delightful and brilliantly choreographed comedy' -
Sunday Times ____________________ The time is 1995, but everybody
has a past. Brilliant Australian Caroline can command everyone
except her own ghoulish mother, which means that things aren't easy
for Josh and Zoe, her husband with Stravinsky-glasses and
twelve-year-old daughter. Zoe reads girls' ballet books and longs
for lessons; a thing denied her until a chance encounter on a
school French exchange. Meanwhile, on the east coast of Africa,
Hattie, Josh's first love, now writes girls' ballet books - that's
when she can carve out the space between her husband and her
crosspatch daughter. From far and wide, they are all drawn
together: a masquerade in which things are not always what they
seem. ____________________ 'This wonderful novel sparkles with
Midsummer Night's Dream magic' - Daily Mail 'Beautifully
structured, with flashes of wonderful eccentricity' - The Times
Ask today's favorite novelists what books influenced their writing
and you'll hear "Brother of the More Famous Jack "again and
again."" Dog-eared copies of this long out-of-print novel are
highly prized and shared enthusiastically in literary circles--its
return to print is cause for celebration.Stylish, suburban
Katherine is eighteen when she is propelled into the heart of
Professor Jacob Goldman's rambling home and his large eccentric
family. As his enchanting yet sharp-tongued wife, Jane, gives birth
to her sixth child, Katherine meets beautiful, sulky Roger and his
volatile younger brother, Jonathan. Inevitable heartbreak sends her
fleeing to Rome, but ten years later, older and wiser, she returns
to find the Goldmans again."Why did it take me so long to discover
the singular joys of Barbara Trapido's novels? Why, for so many
years, had I missed these witty, soulful, heartbreaking, expansive,
brilliant tales? What have I been wasting my time doing? Reading
books that AREN'T perfect? Never again Since finally discovering
Trapido in 2012, I have become a literary evangelist on her behalf.
On account of my badgering, all my friends now love her, too. I
won't rest until everyone in America has read (and fallen in love
with) this fabulous author." --Elizabeth Gilbert
Jem is a joyful mystery to Alice. She is something to give thanks
for. And when she disappears from Alice's life, as suddenly as she
entered it, a whirl of glamour, subversion and literary references,
Alice is left bereft. But then she meets Giovanni, presumptuous and
hectoring, passionate and beautiful, who leads her back to her
childhood friend and the mystery and chaos still surrounding her.
Alice finds herself being seduced all over again
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Juggling (Paperback)
Barbara Trapido
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'A brilliant book' - Mary Wesley, Daily Mail 'She is simply
dynamite ... There are no apparent bounds to Trapido's skill, her
inventiveness and her knowledge' - Philip Hensher, Guardian Sparky
Christina and her saintly adopted sister Pam couldn't be more
different. And when they meet similarly mismatched friends Jago and
Peter, the four embark on a dazzling series of pairings and
partings, outrageous coincidences and eleventh-hour entrances
interrupted one disastrous Halloween when schoolboy revelry turns
horribly wrong. Three years on, as Christina has made it to Oxford
to study English. While she analyses the wit, cruelty and crossed
genders of Shakespearean comedy, the cast of her own life reunites
and the curtain falls on some gloriously unexpected partnerships.
'Juggling by Barbara Trapido is, I think, already well known but it
should be even more so. It has the best piece of Shakespeare
criticism in it I've ever read' - Katherine Rundell, Guardian 'A
joy to read ... Supremely skilful' - Observer 'She weaves a cat's
cradle of wit and erudition around her high-stepping characters,
take breath-taking risks and triumphs against all the odds' -
Independent
Barbara Trapido's captivating novel of coming-of-age novel about
sisters, friendship and political awakening in 1950s South Africa
______________________ 'This is a gorgeous book about growing up
... it also manages to convey, with admirable lightness of touch,
the dawning of a political consciousness ... A wonderful read' -
Observer 'A beautifully written slice of both personal and
political history ... by the end of the novel, you are immersed in
her world and simply never want to leave it' - Guardian 'A
blissfully funny sequence of portraits, family upon family,
vignette upon vignette' - Daily Telegraph ______________________
Dinah and her sister Lisa are growing up in 1950s South Africa,
where racial laws are tightening. They are two little girls from a
dissenting liberal family. Big sister Lisa is strong and sensible,
while Dinah is weedy and arty. At school, the sadistic Mrs
Vaughan-Jones is providing instruction in mental arithmetic and
racial prejudice. And then there's the puzzle of lunch break.
'Would you rather have a native girl or a koelie to make your
sandwiches?' a first-year classmate asks. But Dinah doesn't know
the answer, because it's her dad who makes her sandwiches. As the
apparatus of repression rolls on, Dinah finds her own way. As we
follow her journey through childhood and adolescence, we enter into
one of the darker passages of twentieth-century history.
Selected as a Radio 4 Good Read by Maggie O'Farrell
______________________ 'Sprinkled with magic' - Sunday Times
'Audacious, energetic and dazzing ... There aren't many novelists
whose stories one doesn't want to end, but Barbara Trapido is one
of them' - Philip Hensher, Mail on Sunday ______________________
Sisters Ellen and Lydia live out an idyllic girlhood in Oxford,
their wayward adventures of no concern to their passive, donnish
father and their chilly stepmother. Even when Lydia is killed in a
car accident, death isn't enough to keep her from her sister,
cheerfully returning to haunt her. But Ellen, unwittingly, is
herself haunting the lives of those around her: there is Jonathan
Goldman, whose flat Lydia is running from when she is knocked down;
his daughter Stella, the 'nuisance chip'; and Stella's genius
painter-boy lover Izzy. As Trapido's myriad pairings collide, part,
and then reunite in breathtaking comedy of manners, The Travelling
Hornplayer climaxes in a joyful and unexpected finale.
______________________ 'Reading Barbara Trapido is sheer pleasure'
- Independent on Sunday Books of the Year 'This woman is brilliant.
And she actually makes you laugh ... I enjoyed every page of this
book, which is so shimmering with wit, hectic energy and crazy
convolutions of plots that I ended up in a state of sublime,
satiated exhaustion' - Daily Mail 'She has the mind-teasing skills
of a crime-writer combined with a sense of humour as dry as a
Martini' - Sunday Telegraph
On the banks of the River Avon, five sisters are born. The seasons
come and go, the girls take their lessons under the ash tree, and
always there is the sound of water swirling through the weir. Then,
unexpectedly, an air of decay descends upon the house: ivy grows
unchecked over the windows, angry shouts split the summer air, the
milk sours in the larder and their father takes out his gun.
Tragedy strikes the family, and before long the furniture is being
auctioned off and the sisters dispersed among relatives. In her
daring first novel, originally published in 1947, Barbara Comyns'
unique young heroine relates the vivid, funny and bittersweet story
of a childhood.
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