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Her Three Wise Men

Her Three Wise Men

by StanleyMiddleton (Author)

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    Hardcover 2008

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Synopsis

'In a town like Beechnall there are all sorts of rivalries, enmities and feuds.' And many of them soon swirl around the amateur dramatic society's festival production of Twelfth Night, which is under a cloud after politics result in the departure of the established director. Extra-marital affairs, encroaching violence and emotional turmoil threaten what seems like a placid, middle-class Midlands town, and soon Alicia Smallwood, Middleton's heroine, is confronted with serious choices. Once again Stanley Middleton weaves a strong web of intrigue around ordinary provincial life - which turns out, as the plot unfolds, not to be so ordinary after all.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 272
 Edition: First Edition; 1st printing.
 Publisher: Hutchinson
Published: 28 Aug 2008
ISBN 10: 0091925606
ISBN 13: 9780091925604
Book Overview: 'Stanley Middleton, once dubbed The Chekhov of Suburbia , is to the Midlands suburb what Anne Tyler is to the Midwest picket fence.' The Times

Media Reviews
It may look to the naked eye like a small ripple in the small midlands town of Beechnall, but passion and violence are bubbling beneath the placid surface. A.S. Byatt has described Middleton's art as an exact vision of real things as they are ; which neatly sums up his understated accuracy, and the subtle development of his characters. * The Times *
Though love is on the agenda, this is also a book that rejoices in the workings of the mind and celebrates the intellect but is never dry ... One thing you don't get with Middleton is dumbing down. * Daily Express *
In Her Three Wise Men, Middleton constructs a provincial world where everyone displays good manners and emotional continence but strong feelings swirl beneath the surface * TLS *
Author Bio
Stanley Middleton was joint winner of the Booker Prize with his novel Holiday, which has been reissued in Arrow paperback. He lives in Nottingham, where most of his novels are set. Her Three Wise Men is his forty-fourth book.