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The Glorious Flight of Perdita Tree
'A captivating book - original, intelligent and very entertaining' Isabel Wolff
'Fane consistently focuses her smart, fluid prose and sophisticated thought on rendering a thoughtful, sorrowful and often highly amusing novel' The Times
Perdita Tree, the bored and beautiful wife of a Tory MP, believes that all women should have a magic door through which they can walk into a different life. So when she is kidnapped in Albania, she takes it in the spirit of one huge adventure. Adored by her kidnapper, who believes all things English are perfect, she is persuaded to rescue the Albanians from their dire history, and is vain enough to imagine that she can. The year is 1991, democracy is coming, but are the Albanians ready for it? And are they ready for Perdita?
This book was featured at the Ways With Words Festival, Dartington, and the Chichester Festival, and was chosen for Waterstone's Summer Reads promotion, 2005.
'Fane consistently focuses her smart, fluid prose and sophisticated thought on rendering a thoughtful, sorrowful and often highly amusing novel' The Times
Perdita Tree, the bored and beautiful wife of a Tory MP, believes that all women should have a magic door through which they can walk into a different life. So when she is kidnapped in Albania, she takes it in the spirit of one huge adventure. Adored by her kidnapper, who believes all things English are perfect, she is persuaded to rescue the Albanians from their dire history, and is vain enough to imagine that she can. The year is 1991, democracy is coming, but are the Albanians ready for it? And are they ready for Perdita?
This book was featured at the Ways With Words Festival, Dartington, and the Chichester Festival, and was chosen for Waterstone's Summer Reads promotion, 2005.
359 pages, Paperback
First published December 15, 2005
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September 24, 2017
The best thing I can say about it is that I've honestly never read anything quite like it before. The next best thing, that I'll seek out more by this author. And finally, upon reading the last page, "this is all there is to it, after all that? really?"
Is Perdita a made for binge watching series on Acorn yet? Maybe there she should be and we could get some closure ? She has a lot of loose ends !
Is Perdita a made for binge watching series on Acorn yet? Maybe there she should be and we could get some closure ? She has a lot of loose ends !
January 15, 2009
Hilarious. All Sloanes should be forced to read this book
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