Derby Day - Softcover

Taylor, D. J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1605984442 ISBN 13: 9781605984445

Publisher: Pegasus Books, 2013

Synopsis

As the shadows lengthen over the June grass, all England is heading for Epsom Downs' high life and low life, society beautifies and Whitechapel street girls, bookmakers and gypsies, acrobats and thieves. Whole families stream along the Surrey back-roads, towards the greatest race of the year. Hopes are high, nerves are taut, hats are tossed in the air. This is Derby Day. In this rich and exuberant novel, the mysteries pile high, propelling us towards the day of the great race, as we wait with baited breath as the story gallops to a finish no one expects.

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Review:

Epsom Derby is the subject of an intricately plotted and stylistically burnished crime caper. Taylor builds the suspense, sending his characters to the racetrack for the final event. Whether he intends Tiberius to win or to lose remains, like much else in this tantalizing novel, mysterious almost to the end.

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.--A. N. Wilson

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: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1605984442
• ISBN 13: 9781605984445
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 405