{"product_id":"travelling-hornplayer","title":"Travelling Hornplayer","description":"\u003cb\u003eSelected as a Radio 4 Good Read by Maggie O'Farrell\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e______________________\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003e‘Sprinkled with magic’\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e - Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003e ‘Audacious, energetic and dazzing … There aren’t many novelists whose stories one doesn’t want to end, but Barbara Trapido is one of them’ \u003c\/b\u003e- Philip Hensher, \u003ci\u003eMail on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e______________________\u003c\/b\u003e\n\nSisters Ellen and Lydia live out an idyllic girlhood in Oxford, their wayward adventures of no concern to their passive, donnish father and their chilly stepmother. Even when Lydia is killed in a car accident, death isn't enough to keep her from her sister, cheerfully returning to haunt her. But Ellen, unwittingly, is herself haunting the lives of those around her: there is Jonathan Goldman, whose flat Lydia is running from when she is knocked down; his daughter Stella, the 'nuisance chip'; and Stella's genius painter-boy lover Izzy. \n\nAs Trapido's myriad pairings collide, part, and then reunite in breathtaking comedy of manners, \u003ci\u003eThe Travelling Hornplayer\u003c\/i\u003e climaxes in a joyful and unexpected finale.\n\u003cb\u003e______________________\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\n‘Reading Barbara Trapido is sheer pleasure’ \u003c\/b\u003e- \u003ci\u003eIndependent on Sunday \u003c\/i\u003eBooks of the Year \n\n\u003cb\u003e‘This woman is brilliant. And she actually makes you \u003ci\u003elaugh\u003c\/i\u003e … I enjoyed every page of this book, which is so shimmering with wit, hectic energy and crazy convolutions of plots that I ended up in a state of sublime, satiated exhaustion’ \u003c\/b\u003e- \u003ci\u003eDaily Mail \u003c\/i\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003e'She has the mind-teasing skills of a crime-writer combined with a sense of humour as dry as a Martini' \u003c\/b\u003e- \u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54225628103000,"sku":"9780747594727","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780747594727_0edb5a7a-3a9d-4168-a8ae-d7b160859c45.jpg?v=1764793817","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/travelling-hornplayer","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}