Product Description

This book presents sparkling stories - feminine, saucy, French - by the author of "Meet Me in Mozambique". Proven sales and quality review coverage in busy autumn period: this deft, engaging follow-up to "Meet Me in Mozambique's" critical success will build on Markham's international reputation. E. A. 'Archie' Markham is a star of the reading circuit - from the Royal Society of Literature to the Shakespeare Bookshop, Paris - and a new series of performances is planned. The wise, witty voice of Miss Vanesa is that of a comic storyteller in his prime: these delightful, inter-related tales on the theme of returning home are intimately Caribbean in flavour, but with a saucy French twist. All the returnees are travelling back to a Caribbean island they call home. Yet their time abroad in London, Toronto and New York has changed them utterly and their birthplace is now both less and more than they remembered. But 'it's been an education' and in their gossipy 'artistic' club they have seduction and jacuzzis, sardines and secrets to keep them busy...On the narrative veranda, Miss Vanesa, Nora and Winifred like to compare notes on the foolishness of men and draft letters to exclude undesirables. They worry about whether Arwell should join them, given his dreams of Condoleezza Rice as a perfect bride! Can this explain his sudden interest in classical music and the unexpected delivery of a grand piano? And how can Russell Trajan be so foolish as to land up on a beach in Antigua, not Montserrat for his own father's funeral? These playful, meandering perspectives guide the reader in a virtuous circle of travelling and visiting, hosting and being a guest.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1253882 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .90" h x 4.88" w x 7.98" l, .65 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

Review
"'Markham uses words with quicksilver fluency: the writing, playful and skilful, lends the intricate stories a dazzling sparkle' Metro 'In defying the rules, Markham has a wonderfully original, eccentric charm... His prose is often quirkily conversational, rather like the musings of an absent-minded professor whose speech is full of playful literary references, private jokes and little epiphanies, and whose memory shifts back and forth' Guardian"