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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. 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
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
99-21
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
This woman is brilliant. She deserves to be up there, topping the bestseller lists and winning all the prizes. 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 eneded up in a state of sublime, satiated exhaustion
DAILY MAIL
Sprinkled with magic
SUNDAY TIMES
An entrancing, quirky confection packed with such a rich mixture of fun and pathos that readers may need to pause occasionally, if only draw emotional breath … She has the mind-teasing skills of a crime-writer combined with a sense of humour as dry as a Martini
TELEGRAPH
Witty ... moving ... clever, warm-hearted
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
A funny, cunning and surprisingly sexy novel, which moved at least this reader to both tears and laughter
SUNDAY TIMES
The brilliant [Trapido] ... is one of the better-kept secrets of contemporary letters ... [She] is a great novelist; sooner or later the whole reading world will know it
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
Audacious, energetic and dazzing … The vividness, and the immediately engaging style, is as sure as ever, and the Dickensian swiftness with which she can draw a character is full of charm … 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
Reading Barbara Trapido is sheer pleasure. Afterwards, I went out and bought everything else she has written - and am only disappointed I didn't do it earlier
INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
GUARDIAN
Murdochian entertainment: a tragicomedy of errors. Trapido ... races along with a kind of nervy glamour
NEW YORKER
This woman is brilliant. She deserves to be up there, topping the bestseller lists and winning all the prizes. 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 eneded up in a state of sublime, satiated exhaustion
DAILY MAIL
Sprinkled with magic
SUNDAY TIMES
An entrancing, quirky confection packed with such a rich mixture of fun and pathos that readers may need to pause occasionally, if only draw emotional breath … She has the mind-teasing skills of a crime-writer combined with a sense of humour as dry as a Martini
TELEGRAPH
Witty ... moving ... clever, warm-hearted
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
A funny, cunning and surprisingly sexy novel, which moved at least this reader to both tears and laughter
SUNDAY TIMES
The brilliant [Trapido] ... is one of the better-kept secrets of contemporary letters ... [She] is a great novelist; sooner or later the whole reading world will know it
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
Audacious, energetic and dazzing … The vividness, and the immediately engaging style, is as sure as ever, and the Dickensian swiftness with which she can draw a character is full of charm … 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
Reading Barbara Trapido is sheer pleasure. Afterwards, I went out and bought everything else she has written - and am only disappointed I didn't do it earlier
INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY