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Zusatztext 'A story of real charm and compassion. It is! in short! the kind of novel you want to give all your friends - the elderly! to show them all is not lost! and the young! who have everything to gain' Informationen zum Autor Patricia Duncker is the author of the novels Hallucinating Foucault (winner of the Dillons First Fiction Award and the McKitterick Prize in 1996), The Deadly Space Between , James Miranda Barry and Miss Webster and Chérif . She has also written two books of short stories, Monsieur Shoushana's Lemon Trees and Seven Tales of Sex and Death, and a collection of essays on writing and contemporary literature, Writing on the Wall . Patricia Duncker is Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of Manchester. Klappentext Elizabeth Webster is a spinster pushing seventy. Forced out of her teaching job, she unleashes her sharp tongue and dogmatic opinions on everyone in the English village of Little Blessington. Then, one night, she grinds to a dead halt. To recover from this illness, she travels to North Africa where she has a brush with terrorism - not that she cares about politics. Three weeks after Miss Webster has returned home her doorbell rings. There stands a beautiful young Arab man carrying a large suitcase. Who is he, why is he there and what does he want? A clever, entertaining novel about the friendship between an old woman and a beautiful young man by one of Britain's finest novelists Zusammenfassung A clever, entertaining novel about the friendship between an old woman and a beautiful young man by one of Britain's finest novelists
