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The Queen of the Tambourine
by Jane Gardam
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This winner of the 1991 Whitbread Best Novel of the Year Award traces the descent of Eliza Peabody into madness. Eliza's emotional breakdown occurs during a period of unbearable loneliness, during which she writes to her neighbor Joan to berate her for leaving her husband and children to travel the world. As more letters are presented, one realizes that Eliza's version of events is not always accurate. Despite the intimacy of the letters, she barely knows Joan, and we learn that many letters are never sent: they are really the record of Eliza's breakdown.
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9780312143985,
Paperback,
St Martins Pr,
1996
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9780745147956,
Paperback,
Thorndike Pr,
1996
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9780745147871,
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Thorndike Pr,
1996
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9780786206049,
Paperback,
Thorndike Pr,
1996
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9780312131517,
Hardcover,
St Martins Pr,
1995
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Publisher Notes
A winner of the Whitbread Award for Best Novel of the Year, a haunting novel traces the sometimes hilarious descent into madness and eventual restoration of a smart, imaginative English woman isolated in her well-to-do home who writes letters to a neighbor she barely knows.
Media Reviews
"'The Queen of the Tambourine', which was published in England in 1991, won that country's Whitbread Award; it deserves a warm welcome on this side of the Atlantic."
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