The Irresistible Inheritance of Wilberforce
A Novel in Four Vintages
(Sprache: Englisch)
Wilberforce, jung, reich, arbeitsbesessen, gerät zufällig an Francis Black, jung, lebensfroh, und weinbesessen. Die Reise kann beginnen ...
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Wilberforce, jung, reich, arbeitsbesessen, gerät zufällig an Francis Black, jung, lebensfroh, und weinbesessen. Die Reise kann beginnen ...
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From the bestselling author of the Richard & Judy selected SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN.'Exceptionally accomplished ... a near masterpiece' DAILY EXPRESS
'Heart-wrenching ... a mesmerising page-turner' MAIL ON SUNDAY
'Delightfully written...Paul Torday is a remarkably original novelist' EVENING STANDARD
Late one summer evening, Wilberforce - rich, young, and work-obsessed - makes a detour on his way home to the vast undercroft of Caerlyon Hall, and the domain of Francis Black, a place where wine, hospitality and affection flow freely.
Through Francis, Wilberforce is initiated into a life rich in the promise of friendship and adventure, where, through his new set of friends, the possibility of finding acceptance, and even falling in love, seems finally to be within his reach.
Wilberforce becomes a willing pupil to Francis, and in the cellars of Caerlyon he nurtures a new-found passion for wine. But even the finest wine can leave a bitter aftertaste, and Wilberforce will learn the undercroft's unpalatable secrets, and that passion comes at a price ...
Autoren-Porträt von Paul Torday
Paul Torday burst on to the literary scene in 2007 with his first novel, SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN, an immediate international bestseller that has been translated into 28 languages and has been made into a film starring Ewan McGregor, Kristin Scott Thomas and Emily Blunt. His subsequent novels, THE IRRESISTIBLE INHERITANCE OF WILBERFORCE, THE GIRL ON THE LANDING, THE HOPELESS LIFE OF CHARLIE SUMMERS, MORE THAN YOU CAN SAY, THE LEGACY OF HARTLEPOOL HALL and LIGHT SHINING IN THE FOREST, were all published to great critical acclaim. He was married with two sons by a previous marriage, had two stepsons, and lived close to the River North Tyne. He died at home in December 2013.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Paul Torday
- 2008, 336 Seiten, Maße: 12,8 x 2,4 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: PHOENIX
- ISBN-10: 0753823152
- ISBN-13: 9780753823156
- Erscheinungsdatum: 02.09.2008
Sprache:
Englisch
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"Wilberforce...is good fictional company and the narrative voice Torday gives him...provides an astringently comic note" SUNDAY TIMES "This compulsive study of addiction proves Torday's mastery of the dark, as well as the light, realms of fiction" TIMES "a human story of real poignancy" SUNDAY TELEGRAPH "Torday, as he demonstrated in his debut novel Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, is an extravagantly gifted writer" MAIL ON SUNDAY "it becomes darker and more poignant with each eagerly turned page" BIG ISSUE IN THE NORTH "Unusual and intriguing, this 'Novel in Four Vintages' is a story of passion and addiction, identity and the desire to belong" GOOD BOOK GUIDE
Pressezitat
Exceptionally accomplished.. second novels are notoriously difficult to pull off but Torday has managed a near masterpiece DAILY EXPRESS
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