The Travelling Hornplayer Author:Barbara Trapido Barbara Trapido is a brilliant novelist who has been delighting British readers for more than a decade. Here, the Whitbread Award--winning author of Brother of the More Famous Jack weaves a funny, sexy, and poignant story that begins with the death of a young woman and blossoms into an Austen-esque comedy of manners that explores the conn... more »ections between friends, lovers, and families. With a switchback plot that shifts from Scotland to Rome, from London to the Cotswolds, Barbara Trapido's fifth novel is elegant, surprising, and peopled with wholly original characters whose extraordinary fates are at once uniquely hilarious and immensely touching.
"A wrenching ride . . . there are points in the book when you don't know whether to laugh or cry."-- USA Today
"Wondrously amusing, in a way that too few books are anymore."-- Chicago Tribune
"A great novelist; sooner or later the whole reading world will know it."-- (The San Francisco Chronicle)
"Deliciously subversive. . . . As Trapido's characters experience love, loss, grief and plucky survival, the narrative twists are accomplished with a sleight of hand so subtle that the reader is often stunned."-- Publishers Weekly (starred review)« less