Doug and Dulcie Bysshe are twins. Doug is a successful film star living in the South of France, contemplating a new part as a saintly doctor in an African leper colony. Dulcie, busy and energetic, is fighting to retrieve her husband, the mournful and ineffective Pike, who has absconded to Nice with the adolescent Cherrimay Pugh. At the center of events is the Gooseboy, a creature with a double face—half faun, half deformed horror. In pithy and particular prose, A.L. Barker shrewdly questions the relations between the flesh and the spirit, the ridiculous and the terrible. A.L. Barker’s debut, Innocents, won the first Somerset Maugham award in 1947; in 1969, her novel John Brown’s Body was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
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'A delightful novel ... A.L. Barker has original and entertaining notions about everything' - The Times 'Page after brilliant page ... what she does, she does better than anyone now writing' - Susan Hill
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Doug and Dulcie Bysshe are twins. Doug is a successful film star living in the South of France, contemplating a new part as a saintly doctor in an African leper colony. Dulcie, busy and energetic, is fighting to retrieve her husband, the mournful and ineffective Pike, who has absconded to Nice with the adolescent Cherrimay Pugh. At the center of events is the Gooseboy, a creature with a double face—half faun, half deformed horror. In pithy and particular prose, A.L. Barker shrewdly questions the relations between the flesh and the spirit, the ridiculous and the terrible. A.L. Barker’s debut, Innocents, won the first Somerset Maugham award in 1947; in 1969, her novel John Brown’s Body was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The author of eleven novels and ten collections of short stories, she died in 2002.
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A.N. Barker was revered in her day. I have found good things in other books, but this one is impossible. I couldn't read it at all. But perhaps someone else can. I am a big fan of Hilary Mantel, so you can judge me by that.
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