Sex and Stravinsky
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AN ASTOUNDING NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF FRANKIE AND STANKIE AND BROTHER OF THE MORE FAMOUS JACK
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"A dazzling achievement. It"s beautifully-written, deftly-plotted and moves skilfully from domestic drama to global themes and back again" - Daily Express
"Delightful and brilliantly choreographed comedy" - Sunday Times
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The time is 1995, but everybody has a past.
Brilliant Australian Caroline can command everyone except her own ghoulish mother, which means that things aren"t easy for Josh and Zoe, her husband with Stravinsky-glasses and twelve-year-old daughter. Zoe reads girls" ballet books and longs for lessons; a thing denied her until a chance encounter on a school French exchange.
Meanwhile, on the east coast of Africa, Hattie, Josh"s first love, now writes girls" ballet books - that"s when she can carve out the space between her husband and her crosspatch daughter. From far and wide, they are all drawn together: a masquerade in which things are not always what they seem.
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"This wonderful novel sparkles with Midsummer Night"s Dream magic" - Daily Mail
"Beautifully structured, with flashes of wonderful eccentricity" - The Times
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"A dazzling achievement. It"s beautifully-written, deftly-plotted and moves skilfully from domestic drama to global themes and back again" - Daily Express
"Delightful and brilliantly choreographed comedy" - Sunday Times
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The time is 1995, but everybody has a past.
Brilliant Australian Caroline can command everyone except her own ghoulish mother, which means that things aren"t easy for Josh and Zoe, her husband with Stravinsky-glasses and twelve-year-old daughter. Zoe reads girls" ballet books and longs for lessons; a thing denied her until a chance encounter on a school French exchange.
Meanwhile, on the east coast of Africa, Hattie, Josh"s first love, now writes girls" ballet books - that"s when she can carve out the space between her husband and her crosspatch daughter. From far and wide, they are all drawn together: a masquerade in which things are not always what they seem.
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"This wonderful novel sparkles with Midsummer Night"s Dream magic" - Daily Mail
"Beautifully structured, with flashes of wonderful eccentricity" - The Times