Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #27498 in eBooks
• Published on: 2010-04-15
• Released on: 2010-05-03
• Format: Kindle eBook
• Number of items: 1

Review
'Her readers hold her in desperate affection and her fiction inspires an almost compulsive desire to share ... A seductive writer' Libby Brooks, Guardian 'Her fiction snares from the first page, its plot machinations skilfully veiling a darker pulse' Joanna Briscoe 'Barbara Trapido's writing is so sparklingly clear and witty that it can be a shock to realise how strong an undertow runs beneath the surface' Helen Dunmore 'I love Barbara Trapido and I adore her books' Carol Shields

Review
'This wonderful novel sparkles with Midsummer Night's Dream magic' Daily Mail 'A dazzling achievement. It's beautifully-written, deftly-plotted and moves skilfully from domestic drama to global themes and back again' Daily Express 'Beautifully structured, with flashes of wonderful eccentricity' The Times 'Delightful and brilliantly choreographed comedy' Sunday Times

About the Author
Barbara Trapido is the author of seven novels including Brother of the More Famous Jack (winner of a Whitbread special prize for fiction), Temples of Delight (shortlisted for the Sunday Express Book of the Year Award), The Travelling Hornplayer (shortlisted for the 1998 Whitbread Novel Award), and, most recently, Frankie and Stankie (shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize). She lives in Oxford.