A Fool and His Money by Ann Wroe
A pot of gold is found in a drain in a town in southwestern France during the Hundred Years War. Does the money belong to the man who claims it, or to his befuddled father-in-law? The case of the missing coins allows Ann Wroe to investigate in detail, and through particular people, what life was like in a fourteenth-century community that was physically partitioned (as so many are today) between rival political factions. The people in her story must deal with everyday problems of competence and conscience, and they do so humorously and poignantly against a background of mutual prejudice, threatening authorities, and war.Ann Wroe wrote her first book when she was seven years old. She graduated from Oxford University with a degree in history and went on to work for the BBC World Service, where she covered the final years of communism in Europe. Lives, Lies, and the Iran-Contra Affair are two of her books, as is A Fool and His Money, a story about a scandal in a French village during the Hundred Years' War. Her husband and three sons live in London with her.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780809015924 |
| ISBN 10 | 0809015927 |
| Title | A Fool and His Money |
| Author | Ann Wroe |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl |
| Year published | 1995-11-30 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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