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Chargement... The High Flyer (1993)par Nicholas Shakespeare
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When Thomas Wavery arrives in Gibraltar on his way to take up his last posting as HM Consul General to Abyla, his passport is stolen by a barbary ape. Ignominy and shame have dogged his steps since he lost both the coveted Lisbon Embassy and his wife as a result of an affair with a younger woman Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The story clears itself once the parade of characters is developed. Then, among the side issues of construction of a tunnel to Europe, and an impending Royal Visit, the Consul's ardent hope that a new relationship will develop with a visit from his recent love drives the plot.
An imaginative, informed and moving novel.