Brother of the More Famous Jack: : Barbara Trapido: Bloomsbury Publishing

Brother of the More Famous Jack

Description

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.

Product details

Published	02 Mar 2009
Format	Paperback
Edition	1st
Extent	256
ISBN	9780747599586
Imprint	Bloomsbury Publishing
Dimensions	198 x 129 mm
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

The fiction equivalent of a brisk walk followed by a hot buttered crumpet: fresh, invigorating, comforting and heartening

SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
Few writers give more pleasure and joy to their readers. Trapido has such a gift for seeing the world's weight so clearly and writing about it so lightly

KAMILA SHAMSIE
It is the perfect book. Beautiful, heartbreaking, funny, and utterly ageless. The first time I read it, I knew within pages that Brother of the More Famous Jack was going to become my favourite novel. The second time, that this brilliant, funny, intensely moving work is everything I aspire to as a writer. Every reading since, that devotion to Barbara Trapido is my only true requisite in a friend

MEG MASON
Can we talk about Barbara Trapido? I love those books so much … So charming, they're absolutely gorgeous. For me, reading Barbara Trapido is like entering a entirely different world … I'd recommend everyone read Brother of the More Famous Jack

MARIAN KEYES
Still as fresh and funny after all those years; the perfect coming-of-age novel

CLARE CHAMBERS
Why did it take me so long to discover the singular joys of Barbara Trapido's novels? Why, for so many years, had I missed these witty, soulful, heartbreaking, expansive, brilliant tales? What have I been wasting my time doing? Reading books that AREN'T perfect? Never again!

ELIZABETH GILBERT