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A Note on the Author
BARBARA TRAPIDO was born in South Africa and is the author of six novels – Brother of the More Famous Jack (winner of a Whitbread special prize for fiction), Noah’s Ark, Temples of Delight (shortlisted for the Sunday Express Book of the Year Award), Juggling, The Travelling Hornplayer (shortlisted for the 1998 Whitbread Novel Award), and Frankie and Stankie. She lives in Oxford.
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Brother of the More Famous Jack
Winner of the Whitbread Special Prize for Fiction
With an introduction by Rachel Cusk
Stylish, suburban Katherine is eighteen when she is propelled into the centre of Professor Jacob Goldman’s rambling home and his large eccentric family. As his enchanting yet sharp-tongued wife Jane gives birth to her sixth child, Katherine meets the volatile, stroppy Jonathan and his older, more beautiful brother Roger, who wins her heart. First love quickly leads to heartbreak and sends her fleeing to Rome but, ten years on, she returns to find the Goldmans again. A little wiser and a lot more grown-up, Katherine faces her future.
Brother of the More Famous Jack is Barbara Trapido’s highly acclaimed and much loved debut; a book that redefined the coming-of-age novel.
‘Moving, intense, earthy and witty’
The Times
‘A story, like Mansfield Park, of falling in love with a whole family . . . Accomplished and witty’
A.N Wilson, Spectator
‘There are few modern tales of first love and its disillusions that are as thoroughly realised, as brilliantly lewd, and as hilariously satisfying to men and women of all ages as this one’
Rachel Cusk
Temples of Delight
Jem is a joyful mystery to Alice. She is something to give thanks for. And when she disappears from Alice’s life, as suddenly as she entered it, a whirl of glamour, subversion and literary references, Alice is left bereft. But then she meets Giovanni, presumptuous and hectoring, passionate and beautiful, who leads her back to her childhood friend and the mystery and chaos still surrounding her. Alice finds herself being seduced all over again . . .
‘Her characters are larger than life, but still ring psychologically true. Temples of Delight shows how grief is implicit in joy. It makes you laugh and it moves you’
Sunday Times
‘Very funny . . . fizzes along at a cracking pace’
Sunday Telegraph
‘A strange and magical novel; a complex and ambitious work’
Sunday Express
Juggling
Sparky Christina and her saintly adopted sister Pam couldn’t be more different. And when they meet similarly mismatched friends Jago and Peter, the four embark on a dazzling series of pairings and partings, outrageous coincidences and eleventh-hour entrances interrupted one disastrous Halloween when schoolboy revelry turns horribly wrong. Three years on at university, as Christina analyses the wit, cruelty and crossed genders of Shakespearean comedy, the cast of her own life reunites and the curtain falls on some gloriously unexpected partnerships.
‘Barbara Trapido couldn’t write a boring sentence if she tried’
Fay Weldon
‘Simply dynamite’
‘Brilliantly achieved . . . A work of enormous charm, highly entertaining and told with a deft touch’ Michael Dibdin, Independent on Sunday
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First published by Hamish Hamilton in 1998
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