Synopsis
Violet Birkin is a teacher, and since she's paid to teach by the hour, she imagines she'll have to teach forever. But her life is changing: she's shedding her hair and her husband, the flamboyant actor Frank Eastwood Lea. When Frank's mistress falls pregnant, Violet leaves her marital home in the countryside and moves in with her poly-amorous best friend, Marina, in Kalk Bay. Flyleaf is the story of Violet's newfound spinsterhood in Marina's eccentric Bird House, the local characters she meets through Marina (including Tebogo, a Shakespearean actor manque), and her almost unbearable teaching load at a commercial cram college. At United Colleges, she encounters a kaleidoscope of young South African students with whom she develops a profound rapport. With a little help from her friends, and following a crisis precipitated by her unorthodox teaching methods, Violet gradually rises out of drudgery and despair and agrees, despite her great love for her students, to leave the college to start a bookshop called Flyleaf with Marina.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
Search results for Flyleaf
Seller Image
Flyleaf
Seller: The Haunted Bookshop, LLC, Iowa City, IA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Paperback. Condition: Good+. Crisp, clean pages, if age-toned in margins throughout; soft cover shows a short, light vertical crease at the upper spine and minor shelfwear around corners and spine ends, otherwise well-kept. Seller Inventory # 00090985
Stock Image
Flyleaf
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The wraps are a bit rubbed. Internally clean and tightly bound. One inscription. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Seller Inventory # au34
Buy Used
£ 10.72
£ 21.60 shipping
Ships from South Africa to U.S.A.
Ships from South Africa to U.S.A.
Quantity: 1 available