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Enjoyable, sophisticated, highly intelligent historical novel about Americans in Paris on the eve of ...
'Richly inventive. Intelligent wit-elegiac charm-wonderfully funny' Sunday Times
Ferdinand Mount was Editor of The Times Literary Supplement from 1991 to 2003. He is a reviewer, influential columnist and political commentator. He was awarded the Hawthornden Prize for Of Love and Asthma. He is also the author of Heads You Win.
'The tone is Evelyn Waugh at his most witty and achingly wistful. A delight' Daily Mail
Enjoyable, sophisticated, highly intelligent historical novel about Americans in Paris on the eve of the French Revolution. Seen from the naive yet entertaining perspective of Wm Short, secretary to Thomas ...