TREE OF PEARLS: Book 3 (The Angeline Gower Trilogy) - Softcover

Young

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007578008 ISBN 13: 9780007578009

Publisher: The Borough Press, 2015

Synopsis

The final instalment in Louisa Young’s critically acclaimed series.

What life will Angeline choose?

Trouble is back and has Angeline Gower in its sights.

She’s only just caught her breath when a new onslaught of dilemmas starts to knock at her door. First on the docket is her fateful adversary, Eddie Bates, the trickster who leads her straight to Luxor and right into the arms of her next dilemma, her old lover Sa'id. With her heart being torn in several directions, Angeline’s life shows no signs of slowing down. Would she have it any other way?

Angeline is a heroine of the new guard in the final instalment of Louisa Young’s deliciously funny and razor-sharp trilogy.

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Review:

Tree of Pearls is the final instalment in the Evangeline Gower trilogy. Louisa Young's heroine is as slangy and stroppy but she has a gloriously romantic heart, something often missing from the other literary modern misses. Evangeline's tender passion embraces her daughter Lily, the five-year-old "octopus of love"; the two men in her life, mysterious tempting Sa'id and long, tall Harry, all cheekbones and louche cockiness. Evangeline, ex- belly dancer and single mother, has attitude and intelligence, and a glorious understanding of what makes life worth the living. Once again Evangeline has Eddie Bates on her case. This psychopathic villain caused strife in Desiring Cairo, and his sinister shadow once again draws her to Cairo and Luxor to sort him out once and for all. She' s accompanied by his ex-wife Chrissie, and her own romantic dilemmas: Harry or Sa'id, Sa'id or Harry. The story unfolds slowly and gracefully, with a gorgeous sound track for the heartache and dangerous events: "and then, oh glorious joy, Umm Khalthoum singing Enat Omri--You Are My Life. Whenever I hear it my backbone grows longer and my foot arches, I begin to sway and to feel a mild but definite yearning for the weight of a heavily sequinned band around my hips."

Louisa Young doesn't stick to a plain old story but allows Evangeline digression and musings that shimmer and sparkle. She contemplates mythology, the colours of the landscape and the sky, the rapture in Egyptian love songs. Tree of Pearls is seductive, romantic and realistic. Evangeline Gower is redeemed by love but remains strong and independent, and in control of her own life: "I close no doors, I send love. I am not wasting away for you." --Eithne Farry

Review:

Praise for Louisa Young’s trilogy:

‘Spectacularly worth reading’ The Times

‘Tough, tender, sexy, funny’ Esther Freud

‘Hits an all too rare note of intelligent escapism’ She

‘Streetwise and literate’ Options

‘Wry, perky, entertaining’ Observer

‘Engaging, wise-cracking, likeable, brilliantly sustained...funny, humane and utterly readable’ Good Housekeeping

About this edition

• Publisher: The Borough Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0007578008
• ISBN 13: 9780007578009
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384