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The Travelling Hornplayer
Barbara Trapido
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Description for The Travelling Hornplayer
Paperback. Lydia is killed in a car accident, but she returns to her bereft sister as a benign ghost who, nonetheless, comes to haunt the lives of those around her in unexpected ways: Jonathan Goldman, whose flat Lydia is running from when she is knocked down, and his daughter Stella, who discovers her father's affair with the gladiatorial Sonia. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 224. 272 pages. Lydia is killed in a car accident, but she returns to her bereft sister as a benign ghost who, nonetheless, comes to haunt the lives of those around her in unexpected ways: Jonathan Goldman, whose flat Lydia is running from when she is knocked down, and his daughter Stella, who discovers her father's affair with the gladiatorial Sonia. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 197 x 130 x 18. Weight: 186.
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. ... Read more
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. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780747594727
SKU
V9780747594727
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-22
About Barbara Trapido
Barbara Trapido is the author of seven novels, including five in the acclaimed and beloved Oxford series. She lives in Oxford.
Reviews for The Travelling Hornplayer
Pungent with life, with wit, love yearning and grief, The Travelling Hornplayer is Barbara Trapido’s most entertaining and powerful novel to date. Her fans might be forgiven for thinking this writer couldn't get any better. She just has
GUARDIAN
Murdochian entertainment: a tragicomedy of errors. Trapido ... races along with a kind of nervy glamour
NEW YORKER ... Read more
GUARDIAN
Murdochian entertainment: a tragicomedy of errors. Trapido ... races along with a kind of nervy glamour
NEW YORKER ... Read more