The High Flyer

Zusatztext

Thomas Wavery is the new Consul General at Abyla on the tip of North Africa. A career diplomat, Wavery was once a high flyer, but an affair with a younger woman has dashed his dreams of ambassadorship. He arrives in Abyla with his wife suing for divorce, his passport stolen by a Gibraltarian ape and precious little enthusiasm for the task ahead. His one hope of redemption is a visit from his new love.

Autorenportrait

Nicholas Shakespeare was born in 1957. The son of a diplomat, much of his youth was spent in the Far East and South America. His novels have been translated into twenty languages. They include<i>The Vision of Elena Silves</i>, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award,<i>Snowleg</i>and<i>The Dancer Upstairs</i>, which was chosen by the American Libraries Association in 1997 as the year's best novel, and in 2001 was made into a film of the same name by John Malkovich. His most recent novels are<i>Secrets of the Sea</i>and<i>Inheritance</i>. He is married with two small boys and currently lives in Oxford.

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