The Last Kings of Sark
$52.49
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
24 June 2014
Summary
‘My name is Jude. And because of Law, Hey and the Obscure, they thought I was a boy.’
Jude is twenty-one when she flies in a private plane to Sark, a tiny carless Channel Island, the last place in Europe to abolish feudalism. She has been hired for the summer to give tuition to a rich local boy called Pip. But when she arrives, the family is unsettling—Pip is awkward, over-literal, and adamant he doesn’t need a tutor, and upstairs, his enigmatic mother Esme casts a shadow ove…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844089307 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1844089304 |
| Author: | Rosa Rankin-Gee |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 24 June 2014 |
| Weight: | 232g |
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Critics Review
A stunningly well-written first novel - The Times
Rosa Rankin-Gee writes beautifully and vividly - The ListRosa Rankin-Gee has woven an irresistible and heady spell of youth and summer, love and friendship. Her energetic prose and attention to sensual detail will keep you reading greedily until the last page and thinking about the characters long afterwards. What an enchanting debutThis is a book full of adventure and love. Like every great novel it has magic at its core. It feels very modern too, like it has been written by a writer of a new time … A writer we will all want to read again and againRosa Rankin-Gee
Rosa Rankin-Gee grew up in Kensal Rise, London, but now lives by the Parc de Belleville in Paris. In 2010, she was one of Esquire magazine’s ‘75 Brilliant Young Brits’. In 2011, she won Shakespeare & Company’s international Paris Literary Prize. Rosa Rankin-Gee runs a night-bird version of a Book Club, where up to 300 people come to swap books and drink cocktails in the former home of George Bizet. She also does freelance copywriting. She is twenty-six.
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