Tennysons Gift by Lynne Truss

Tennysons Gift by Lynne Truss

From the bestselling author of ‘Eats Shoots & Leaves’, an unexpectedly moving, luminously wise and brilliantly funny novel about a Victorian Poet Laureate. In July 1864, a corner of the Isle of Wight is buzzing with literary and artistic creativity. A morose Tennyson is reciting 'Maud' to empty sofas; the photographer Julia Margaret Cameron is white-washing the roses for visual effect and the mismatched couple, actress Ellen Terry and painter G. F. Watts, are thrown into the company of the remarkable Lorenzo Fowler, the American phrenologist, and his daughter Jessie. Enter mathematician Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll), known to Jessie as the 'fiendish pedagogue', and Lynne Truss's wonderfully imaginative cocktail of Victorian seriousness and riotous farce begins to take flight.

'A comic novel of subtle distinction… A richly entertaining book, and at times a very moving one' The Times

'An enormously entertaining novel, with some terrific writing throughout… a fast-moving farce which allows her sideswipes at the foibles of the famousIt is a delicious confection with some marvellous one-liners' Sunday Telegraph

'[A] wonderfully inventive jeu d'esprit… This epic of the Isle of Wight's literary apogee is virtually the perfect summer book. No deck-chair will be complete without it' Independent

‘An enormously entertaining novel, with terrific writing throughout.’ Sunday Telegraph

'A rollicking read. It is mischievous, light-hearted and fun' Literary Review

‘Terrific… ‘Tennyson's Gift’ is witty, surprising, oddly compassionate and hugely assured.’ Sunday Times

Lynne Truss is one of Britain's best-loved comic writers and is the author of the worldwide bestsellers Eats, Shoots & Leaves and Talk to the Hand. She reviews for the Sunday Times and writes regularly for radio.

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ISBN 13	9780007355273
ISBN 10	0007355270
Title	Tennysons Gift
Author	Lynne Truss
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers
Year published	2010-05-27
Number of pages	272
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