Christina and Pam are sisters less than a year apart in age. Pam is tall and black-haired, while Christina is small and fair. Brought up in New York, they are sent to an English boarding school where they meet two boys, Peter and Jago. As the years pass, the four meet and part.

Juggling

Literature & Fiction

BARBARA TRAPIDO

Contemporary

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Penguin

Witty and playful, this novel sees the return of some of Barbara Trapido's best-loved characters from "Brother of the Famous Jack" and "Juggling".

The Travelling Horn Player

Penguin??Books

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; his daughter Stella, who has discovered that her father has been having an affair with the gladiatorial Sonia; Stella's genius painter-boy lover Izzy, whom she leaves behind as she flees to the arms of kindly Peregrine. Along with good stepmothers, bad mothers, strange professors and wicked monks, their lives collide in a breathtaking finale.

The Travelling Hornplayer

A sequel to "Temples of Delight", which was shortlisted for the "Sunday Express" Book of the Year Award. Pam is the adopted daughter of Christina's parents. They meet Peter and Jago and their paths converge, diverge and converge again in unexpected ways.

Hamish Hamilton Ltd.

The travelling hornplayer

Hamish Hamilton

Brother of the More Famous Jack

Viking Press

Literary

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

Temples of Delight

Jem McCrail is a fantastical godsend to the timid young Alice Pilling. Like a dropped acorn,” she appears halfway through the week, halfway through the term, and halfway through Miss Aldridge’s Silent Reading Hour. Through the doorway she barely clears, wearing clothes like the cowshed-crouching urchin she encountered in her favorite P. G. Wodehouse story, Jem leads the stammering Alice into a world of culture, truancy, and bizarreriea world far beyond the desiccated lessons of school. The girls cultivate a steadfast bond based on a wicked and encircling sense of humor, an impish joy in indelicate literature, and Mozart’s The Magic Flute.Then, as abruptly as she came, Jem disappears.The years and schools that follow, as well as the loversone stuffy but competent, the other a smug would-be Thatcheritedo not dim the image of the wondrous Jem. The disheartened Alice is almost ready to settle when an accident and the intervention of a latter-day fallen angel impel her on one more wild and extravagant journey. At the end her quest will lead her through the portals opening to life’s profoundest joys. Like the opera it echoes, the result is pure enchantment.

Sex and Stravinsky

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.

Bloomsbury UK

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Juggling

Juggling

The Travelling Horn Player

The Travelling Hornplayer

Juggling

The travelling hornplayer

Brother of the More Famous Jack

Juggling

Temples of Delight

Sex and Stravinsky