The Queen of the Tambourine - Softcover

Gardam, Jane

 
9781933372365: The Queen of the Tambourine

Synopsis

Winner of the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel of the Year.

From the author of Old Filth.

With prose that is vibrant and witty, The Queen of the Tambourine traces the emotional breakdown―and eventual restoration―of Eliza Peabody, a smart and wildly imaginative woman who has become unbearably isolated in her prosperous London neighborhood. The letters Eliza writes to her neighbor, a woman whom she hardly knows, reveal her self-propelled descent into madness. Eliza must reach the depths of her downward spiral before she can once again find health and serenity. This story of a woman’s confrontation with the realities of sanity will delight readers who enjoy the works of Anita Brookner, Sybille Bedford, Muriel Spark, and Sylvia Plath.

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About the Author

Jane Gardam has twice won the Whitbread Award, for The Hollow Land, and Queen of the Tambourine. She is also the author of God on the Rocks, which was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, and most recently, Faith Fox.

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