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‘A deeply satisfying book. I feel quite exceptionally inclined to read it all over again’ Literary Review
Thomas Wavery was once destined for the top of the diplomatic service. Expecting a prestigious post in Lisbon, an affair with a younger woman throws his life into uncertainty. With his marriage and his career prospects on the rocks, he is exiled to Ceuta, a Spanish enclave on the North African coast. There he wrestles with the expectations of his work and his enduring feelings for Catherine, and finds himself entangled in the lives of the memorable cast of characters who inhabit this unusual outpost.
‘He tells a story like an angel... Wonderful’ Observer
Thomas Wavery was once destined for the top of the diplomatic service. Expecting a prestigious post in Lisbon, an affair with a younger woman throws his life into uncertainty. With his marriage and his career prospects on the rocks, he is exiled to Ceuta, a Spanish enclave on the North African coast. There he wrestles with the expectations of his work and his enduring feelings for Catherine, and finds himself entangled in the lives of the memorable cast of characters who inhabit this unusual outpost.
‘He tells a story like an angel... Wonderful’ Observer
‘Shakespeare has completed a richly detailed, remarkably complete imaginary world’ The Times
‘His lyricism is all his own and he raises his lovers to a plateau of passion where Greene never ventured’ Sunday Telegraph
‘Wavery’s story has a lyric simplicity and an emotional subtlety that are moving, involving and beautifully observed’ Independent
‘The Vision of Elena Silves was almost too precociously good. The High Flyer rolls back the doors of the Shakespearian bunker to reveal the arsenal within. It’s a very good novel’ William Boyd
‘A deeply satisfying book. I feel quite exceptionally inclined to read it all over again’ Literary Review
Thomas Wavery was once destined for the top of the diplomatic service. Expecting a prestigious post in Lisbon, an affair with a younger woman throws his life into uncertainty. With his marri...
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Nicholas Shakespeare was born in 1957. The son of a diplomat, much of his youth was spent in the Far East and South America. His novels have been translated into twenty languages. They include The Vision of Elena Silves, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, Snowleg and The Dancer Upstairs, which was chosen by the American Libraries Association in 1997 as the year's best novel, and in 2001 was made into a film of the same name by John Malkovich. His most recent novels are Secrets of the Sea and Inheritance. He is married with two small boys and currently lives in Oxford.
Nicholas Shakespeare was born in 1957. The son of a diplomat, much of his youth was spent in the Far East and South America. His novels have been translated into twenty languages. They include The Vision of Elena Silves, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, Snowleg and The Dancer Upstairs, which...
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