Melted into Air: A Comedy of Errors in the Umbrian Hills [Paperback]

Sandi Toksvig (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 28, 2008

Frances Angel, drunk and disgruntled, arrives in Italy to attend the I Zingari Art School, leaving behind her dazzling career as a successful theatrical impresario and returning to a distant and painful past. She falls into an eclectic group composed of performance artists, ex-soldiers, and a housewife who really just wants to paint something to match her settee. In the village a scale replica of the La Scala opera house becomes the setting for the great drama of Frances’s past to be played out on the world’s smallest stage. Frances expected to find some answers, but what she didn’t expect was romance and quite so much farce.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Just the thing for the airport delay DAILY IRELAND Here's one that slips down easily and aids restful sleep - a delightful new novel ... A page-turner with great one-liners THE TIMES Bounces along with the good-natured levity one would expect from this author ... warmly recommended as a light summer read - to be digested over a grappa in a sunlit Italian piazza SUNDAY TELEGRAPH A book that bounces along with great verve and energy subverting all the cliches... The result is a real page turner... It's also very funny- Toksvig has a terrific sense of timing. TIME OUT

About the Author

Sandi Toksvig is the author of Flying Under Bridges, Gladys Reunited, and Whistling for the Elephants.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group (May 28, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0751535435
• ISBN-13: 978-0751535433
• Product Dimensions: 0.8 x 5 x 7.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,009,178 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)