by Jane Gardam · Abacus Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780349102269
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«The Queen of the Tambourine» is the literary fiction novel by Jane Gardam, published by Abacus Books in paperback (240 pages, in English).
Eliza Peabody, a woman from south London, leaves notes with advice to her neighbors out of her eagerness to help. When Joan disappears from number forty-one, Eliza tries to find out what has happened while her marriage falls apart. Social satire with mystery about faith, loneliness and the line between reality and delusion.
Winner of the Whitbread Novel of the Year. The work was originally published in 1991; this Abacus Books edition is from 1992.
For readers of literary fiction and British novels with humor, mystery and female characters.
Jane Mary Gardam was an English writer of children's and adult fiction and literary critic. She also penned reviews for The Spectator and The Telegraph and wrote for BBC Radio. She lived in Kent, Wimbledon and Yorkshire. She won numerous literary awards, including the Whitbread Award twice. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2005.
