Redhill Rococo
On sale
15th September 2016
Price: £8.99
Genre
Classic Fiction (pre C 1945) / Historical Romance / Modern & Contemporary Fiction (post C 1945) / Romance
Selected:
ebook / ISBN-13: 9780349007182
FROM THE AUTHOR SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE (1996) AND THE WHITBREAD PRIZE (2003)
‘The Mackay vision . . . as rich in history and wonder as a plain Victorian terrace house’ GUARDIAN
‘A national treasure . . . She has achieved that rarest of things for a writer’ DAILY TELEGRAPH
‘A highly original talent’ TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
The young Luke Ribbons, a vicar’s son and lately a guest of Her Majesty, arrives into the rackety Slattery household as a lodger, and falls irrevocably in love with redoubtable and beautiful Pearl, mother of four and grandmother. Pearl, balanced between respectability and ruin and bruised by her baroque past, is unwilling, to his despair, to distinguish him from the throng of dispossessed youth trooping through her household. Luke enlists the services of the local, highly respectable and provincial witch doctor, but things don’t go quite as he had planned . . .
‘The Mackay vision . . . as rich in history and wonder as a plain Victorian terrace house’ GUARDIAN
‘A national treasure . . . She has achieved that rarest of things for a writer’ DAILY TELEGRAPH
‘A highly original talent’ TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
The young Luke Ribbons, a vicar’s son and lately a guest of Her Majesty, arrives into the rackety Slattery household as a lodger, and falls irrevocably in love with redoubtable and beautiful Pearl, mother of four and grandmother. Pearl, balanced between respectability and ruin and bruised by her baroque past, is unwilling, to his despair, to distinguish him from the throng of dispossessed youth trooping through her household. Luke enlists the services of the local, highly respectable and provincial witch doctor, but things don’t go quite as he had planned . . .
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The Mackay vision . . . as rich in history and wonder as a plain Victorian terrace house
A highly original talent
Shena Mackay is a national treasure . . . She has achieved that rarest of things for a writer
