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The Travelling Hornplayer

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Bloomsbury presents The Travelling Hornplayer by Barbara Trapido, read by Amy Noble.

Stunning and difficult, Stella Goldman is programmed for maximum nuisance capacity, but when she discovers both her father’s affair and her boyfriend’s infidelity on the same day, she flees into the arms of kindly Pen, who speaks as though he’s stepped out of Brief Encounter.

Meanwhile, her friend Ellen struggles to come to terms with the death of her sister, Lydia, whose ghost haunts not only her and her father Roland, but the beloved Goldmans (from Brother of the More Famous Jack), too. Along with eccentric professors, wicked monks, and the titular travelling hornplayer, their lives collide in a breathtaking finale.

Critics Review

The brilliant [Trapido] . . . is one of the better-kept secrets of contemporary letters . . . [She] is a great novelist; sooner or later the whole reading world will know it.
San Francisco Chronicle
Her fans might be forgiven for thinking this writer couldn’t get any better. She just has.
The Guardian
Murdochian entertainment: a tragicomedy of errors. Trapido . . . races along with a kind of nervy glamour.
The New Yorker
Witty . . . moving . . . clever, warm-hearted.
New York Times Book Review
Author Barbara Trapido
Narrator Amy Noble
Duration 11 hours and 12 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9798260202890
Format Audiobook
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Genre Fiction: general and literary, Modern and contemporary fiction
Availability US

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