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Prodigies

Prodigies

by Francis King (Author)

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    Paperback 2001

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Synopsis

Three women - daughter, mother and aunt - abandon their pampered, privileged lives in The Hague of the 1860s, to set off on an epic journey to the heart of Africa. Since the daughter, Alexine, has inherited a vast fortune from her mysterious tycoon father, the women take with them the family butler and nurse and each her own personal maid. In Cairo they recruit a staff of more than a hundred. The travelers go through a series of now exhilarating, now bizarre and now terrifying adventures, as indomitably they push on with what becomes an exploration not merely of uncharted Africa but of their own innermost selves. Eventually tragedy engulfs each of them in turn.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 368
 Publisher: Arcadia Books
Published: 08 Jun 2001
ISBN 10: 1900850559
ISBN 13: 9781900850551

Media Reviews
It is a rare pleasure to know from the very first page of a new novel that you are in for a treat. Francis King immediately grabs the reader's attention with an apparently effortless mastery Louise Guiness, Evening Standard Francis King, one of the finest contemporary novelists, is prolific, fluent, witty and moving. Melvyn Bragg At first glance, Prodigies, with its focus on social constrictions and sweeping scale, seems more like a nineteenth-century novel than a contemporary one. And yet the book defies all expectations in a thoroughly modern and audacious way. Literary Review
Author Bio
Francis King is a former International President of PEN and drama critic of the Sunday Telegraph. His fiction includes Act of Darkness, Dead Letters, and The Custom House. Arcadia published Prodigies to great acclaim in 2001, while his 28th novel The Nick of Time was longlisted for the Booker Prize 2003, attracting critical praise from Harold Pinter, Antonia Fraser, Beryl Bainbridge, Penelope Lively, and Margaret Drabble.