The Queen Of The Tambourine
Jane Gardam
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Description for The Queen Of The Tambourine
Paperback. A wonderful bittersweet story about a misguided do-gooder. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 172. Good copy with some shelf wear
Eliza Peabody is one of those dangerously blameless women who believe they have God in their pocket. She is a modern-day Florence Nightingale, always up at the Hospice or the Wives' club; she is too enthusiastic; she talks too much. Her concern for the welfare of her wealthy south London neighbours even extends to ingenuous, well-meaning notes of unsolicited advice under the door.
It is just such a one-sided correspondence that heralds Eliza's undoing. Did her letter have something to do with Joan's abrupt disappearance from number forty-one? What to make of the long absences of her husband and ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349102269
SKU
KRA0011631
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Jane Gardam
Jane Gardam is the only writer to have been twice awarded the Whitbread/Costa Prize for Best Novel of the Year, for The Queen of the Tambourine and The Hollow Land. She also holds a Heywood Hill Literary Prize for a lifetime's contribution to the enjoyment of literature. She is the author of five volumes of acclaimed stories: Black Faces, White ... Read more
Reviews for The Queen Of The Tambourine
'Brilliant' SUNDAY TIMES
'Marvellously subtle and moving' THE TIMES
'An ingenious, funny, satirical, sad story...Vivid and poignant' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
'Excellently done ... manic delusions were never so persuasive ... very moving when it is not being exceedingly funny' ANITA BROOKNER
'Wickedly comic ... masterly ... Read more