Her Three Wise Men - Hardcover

Middleton, Stanley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0091925606 ISBN 13: 9780091925604

Publisher: Hutchinson, 2008

Synopsis

'In a town like Beechnall there are all sorts of rivalries, enmities and feuds.' And many of them soon swirl around the amateur dramatic society's festival production of Twelfth Night, which is under a cloud after politics result in the departure of the established director.

Extra-marital affairs, encroaching violence and emotional turmoil threaten what seems like a placid, middle-class Midlands town, and soon Alicia Smallwood, Middleton's heroine, is confronted with serious choices.

Once again Stanley Middleton weaves a strong web of intrigue around ordinary provincial life - which turns out, as the plot unfolds, not to be so ordinary after all.

About this title

About the Author

Stanley Middleton was joint winner of the Booker Prize with his novel Holiday, which has been reissued in Arrow paperback. He lives in Nottingham, where most of his novels are set. Her Three Wise Men is his forty-fourth book.

From the Back Cover

Acclaim for Stanley Middleton

At first glance, or even at second, Stanley Middleton s world is easily recognizable The excellence of art, for Middleton, is an exact vision of real things as they are. And because he is himself so exact an observer, his world at third glance can seem strange and disturbing or newly and brilliantly lit with colour. A.S. Byatt

What is so extraordinary about Mr Middleton s talent is that, despite implacable domesticity, he is not trivial Mr Middleton does not wish to change anybody s view of the world; he only wants to help the readers understand and better the view of it that they already have, and his quietness and patience do indeed lead him to success in that endeavour. Bernard Levin

He illuminates the important matters beneath the surface that ordinary people feel but rarely talk about. Philip Howard

[Middleton] opens a window into other lives. And the fact that these lives are mostly, on the surface anyhow, humdrum, makes his achievements the more remarkable, and the more worthwhile. Allan Massie, Scotsman

From the Inside Flap

In a town like Beechnall there are all sorts of rivalries, enmities and feuds. And many of them soon swirl around the amateur dramatic society s festival production of Twelfth Night, which is under a cloud after politics result in the departure of the established director.

Extra-marital affairs, encroaching violence and emotional turmoil threaten what seems like a placid, middle-class Midlands town, and soon Alicia Smallwood, Middleton s heroine, is confronted with serious choices.

Once again Stanley Middleton weaves a strong web of intrigue around ordinary provincial life which turns out, as the plot unfolds, not to be so ordinary after all.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hutchinson
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0091925606
• ISBN 13: 9780091925604
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272