Frances Angel, drunk and disgruntled, arrives in Italy to attend the I Zingari Art School, leaving behind her dazzling career as a successful theatrical impresario and returning to a distant and painful past. She falls into an eclectic group of performance artists, ex soldiers and a housewife who really just wants to paint something to match her settee. In the village a scale replica of the La Scala opera house becomes the setting for the great drama of Francis’ past to be played out on the world’s smallest stage. Francis expected to find some answers but what she didn’t expect was romance and quite so much farce.
For THE GLADYS SOCIETY:
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- 'Should not be read while eating, or in public, for fear of becoming helpless with laughter and having concerned passers-by call the men in white coats to cart you away' BOOKS MAGAZINE
- 'Touching and funny account of our favourite Great Dane going back to the America of her childhood and searching for its survivors' Sheridan Morley, THE WEEK
- For WHISTLING FOR THE ELEPHANTS
- 'Hugely rewarding' Beryl Bainbridge
- 'A brilliantly funny novel' MAIL ON SUNDAY
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Published 03/07/2006
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