Derby Day - Hardcover

Taylor, D. J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1605983322 ISBN 13: 9781605983325

Publisher: Pegasus Books, 2012

Synopsis

As the shadows lengthen over the June grass, all England is heading for Epsom Down--high life and low life, society beauties and White chapel street girls, bookmakers and gypsies, hawkers and thieves. Hopes are high, nerves are taut, hats are tossed in the air--this is Derby Day.

For months people have been waiting and plotting for this day. Everyone's eyes are on champion horse Tiberius, on whose performance half a dozen destinies depend. In this rich and exuberant novel, rife with the idioms of Victorian England, the mysteries pile high, propelling us toward the day of the great race, and we wait with bated breath as the story gallops to a finish that no one expects.

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Review:

Derby Day is a triumphant success. In this unputdownable Victorian romp Taylor enjoyable proves himself to be one of the finest of our 21st-century novelists.

Taylor has written an exceptionally clever 19th-century novel with a richness of character that almost matches his models of Dickens and Thackeray.

Derby Day will be hard to put down. As ever with Taylor, literary complexities lurk under the smooth surface of a stylish page-turner.

Book Description:

A gripping novel of romance and rivalry, gambling and greed, from acclaimed novelist and biographer D.J. Taylor - longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2011

About this edition

• Publisher: Pegasus Books
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1605983322
• ISBN 13: 9781605983325
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 405