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    Juggling

    By Barbara Trapido

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    'A brilliant book' - Mary Wesley, Daily Mail

    'She is simply dynamite … There are no apparent bounds to Trapido's skill, her inventiveness and her knowledge' - Philip Hensher, Guardian

    Sparky Christina and her saintly adopted sister Pam couldn't be more different. And when they meet similarly mismatched friends Jago and Peter, the four embark on a dazzling series of pairings and partings, outrageous coincidences and eleventh-hour entrances interrupted one disastrous Halloween when schoolboy revelry turns horribly wrong.

    Three years on, as Christina has made it to Oxford to study English. While she analyses the wit, cruelty and crossed genders of Shakespearean comedy, the cast of her own life reunites and the curtain falls on some gloriously unexpected partnerships.

    'Juggling by Barbara Trapido is, I think, already well known but it should be even more so. It has the best piece of Shakespeare criticism in it I've ever read' - Katherine Rundell, Guardian

    'A joy to read … Supremely skilful' - Observer

    'She weaves a cat's cradle of wit and erudition around her high-stepping characters, take breath-taking risks and triumphs against all the odds' - Independent
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
    Release dateAug 14, 2013
    ISBN9781408822746
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    Juggling
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    Barbara Trapido

    Barbara Trapido is the author of seven novels including Brother of the More Famous Jack (winner of a Whitbread special prize for fiction), Temples of Delight (shortlisted for the Sunday Express Book of the Year Award), The Travelling Horn Player, and, most recently, Frankie and Stankie (shortlisted for the 1998 Whitbread Novel Award and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize). She lives in Oxford.

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    • 3/5
      I was very much enjoying the book when it ended abruptly, with an ending that was rather contrived in its convolutedness, which detracted from Trapido's fantastic set-up and cast.