Redhill Rococo

Shena Mackay

ISBN 10: 0434440469 / ISBN 13: 9780434440467

Published by William Heinemann, London, 1986

About this Item

Hardback 1986. 1st edition. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. JACKET SPINE HAS A CREASE. Jacket is a little foxed but is not torn. Front flap is not price-clipped: £9.95. Jacket is now under clear removable covers. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref B45.

Seller Inventory # 019840

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Redhill Rococo
• Publisher: William Heinemann, London
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0434440469
• ISBN 13: 9780434440467
• Binding: Hardback
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

The young Luke Ribbons, a vicar's son and lately a guest of Her Majesty, arrives into the rackety Slattery household as a lodger, and falls irrevocably in love with redoubtable and beautiful Pearl, mother of four and grandmother. Pearl, balanced between respectability and ruin and bruised by her baroque past, is unwilling, to his despair, to distinguish him from the throng of dispossessed youth trooping through her household. Luke enlists the services of the local, highly respectable and provincial witch doctor, but things don't go quite as he had planned . . .

About the Author

'Mackay sees "eternity in a plastic flower and the human condition in the brittle pink Little Princess Vanity Set in the supermarket" - junk not changed, but momentarily backlit, in moments of joy and pain' Guardian Shena Mackay has written fifteen works of fiction - novels and short stories, including The Orchard On Fire which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1995. She lives in Southampton where she is writing her memoir. Now all of her novels and short stories will be published as Virago Modern Classics