DESIRING CAIRO: Book 2 (The Angeline Gower Trilogy) - Softcover

Young

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007577990 ISBN 13: 9780007577996

Publisher: The Borough Press, 2015

Synopsis

The sparky, funny sequel to Louisa Young’s acclaimed first novel of belly-dancing, motorbikes and single-parenthood.

Angeline has a surprise waiting for her, and it's one that threatens everything she holds dear.

Everything used to mean herself and her Harley Davidson; now it means her sister’s baby, Lily, and a life that they have just got back on track. But these letters bring a threat that cannot be ignored, and send Angeline back to Cairo, where love, chaos and – maybe – redemption are lying in wait for her.

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

About this title

Review:

‘A romantic hymn to the struggle of being independent...It is the compulsive quality of this writing that gives Louisa Young’s books such wide appeal.’ The Times

‘Funny and scary...with a memorable David Lynch-style take on Shepherd’s Bush...in writing honestly and unsentimentally, Young celebrates the unequivocal nature of parental love with verve and style.’ Julie Myerson, Mail on Sunday

‘As well as being compelling and witty, “Desiring Cairo” is immensely touching, leaving haunting traces across the reader’s heart and mind...Majestic.’ Big Issue

From the Back Cover:

Evangeline Gower, single mother and former belly dancer, still has her bad leg, her good heart and the child that isn’t hers; but she now likes her ex-boyfriend, knows her psychotic admirer (and his wife) and is beginning to forgive her dead sister. And as for her past – up from it bobs a beautiful Egyptian boy who has lost his mother, trailing in his wake all kinds of chaos including his even more beautiful brother, who may or may not be bearing in both beautiful hands everything Evangeline ever wanted. He leads her back to Cairo and Upper Egypt where her past, her future, and her old enemy all need sorting out.

'Desiring Cairo' is a novel about love and fantasy, home and abroad, west London and the west bank of the Nil, the nature of strength and the necessity of weakness, the love of children and the love of men, redemption and responsibility, the possibility of happiness and the risks involved in being too affected by the colour of palm-tree fronds at dawn. Like 'Baby Love', the book which starts Evangeline’s story, this is a thriller without violence and a romance without sentiment.

PRAISE FOR 'BABY LOVE'

“Spectacularly worth reading”
THE TIMES

“Brilliant, unique ... an exceptional first nove”
GUARDIAN

“Tough, tender, sexy and funny”
ESTHER FREUD

“Exciting, compelling and tense”
TIME OUT

“You will keep coming back to this book when you should be doing something else”
LOUIS DE BERNIERES

About this edition

• Publisher: The Borough Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0007577990
• ISBN 13: 9780007577996
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400