The Travelling Hornplayer
a novel
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The Travelling Hornplayer
Narrated by:
Amy Noble
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Narrated by:
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Amy Noble
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Barbara Trapido
Stunning and difficult, Stella Goldman is programmed for maximum nuisance capacity, but when she discovers both her father’s affair and her boyfriend’s infidelity on the same day, she flees into the arms of kindly Pen, who speaks as though he’s stepped out of Brief Encounter.
Meanwhile, her friend Ellen struggles to come to terms with the death of her sister, Lydia, whose ghost haunts not only her and her father Roland, but the beloved Goldmans (from Brother of the More Famous Jack), too. Along with eccentric professors, wicked monks, and the titular travelling hornplayer, their lives collide in a breathtaking finale.©1998 Barbara Trapido (P)2026 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Critic reviews
The brilliant [Trapido] . . . is one of the better-kept secrets of contemporary letters . . . [She] is a great novelist; sooner or later the whole reading world will know it.
Her fans might be forgiven for thinking this writer couldn’t get any better. She just has.
Murdochian entertainment: a tragicomedy of errors. Trapido . . . races along with a kind of nervy glamour.
Witty . . . moving . . . clever, warm-hearted.
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