The Queen of the Tambourine -- Jane Gardam, Paperback

In prose vibrant and witty, The Queen of the Tambourine is a darkly comic novel about a smart, sensitive, and wildly imaginative woman who loses and then regains control over her life. Once the proverbial good woman behind a highly successful husband, Eliza Peabody now finds herself abandoned and isolated in her prosperous London neighborhood. She will have to reach new depths before discovering a path back to health and serenity.

Winner of the Whitbread Award for Fiction, this is a moving story of a woman's confrontation with the often hard realities of the golden years by the beloved author of Old Filth.

Author: Jane Gardam
Publisher: Europa Editions
Published: 09/01/2007
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.20w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781933372365
Age Range: 18-UP

About the Author
Jane Gardam has twice won the Whitbread Award, for The Hollow Land, and Queen of the Tambourine. She is also the author of God on the Rocks, which was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, and most recently, Faith Fox.