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Description for Acting Up
hardcover.
The Andersons are a military family with honours and traditions stretching back two hundred years. When the second Iraq war breaks out, it is only natural that their newest generations should be represented in the ranks of British officers: at 24, Lieutenant Susie Anderson delays her wedding to handsome fellow-officer Callum and joins her regiment on the hot sands of Kuwait. Brother Francis, meanwhile, continues his cabaret career as Madam Fanny Fantoni, drag chanteuse and net-stockinged vamp, with a stinging line in repartee and the most remarkable falsetto top C in Clapham. As the neighbours agree, it must be terribly ... Read more
The Andersons are a military family with honours and traditions stretching back two hundred years. When the second Iraq war breaks out, it is only natural that their newest generations should be represented in the ranks of British officers: at 24, Lieutenant Susie Anderson delays her wedding to handsome fellow-officer Callum and joins her regiment on the hot sands of Kuwait. Brother Francis, meanwhile, continues his cabaret career as Madam Fanny Fantoni, drag chanteuse and net-stockinged vamp, with a stinging line in repartee and the most remarkable falsetto top C in Clapham. As the neighbours agree, it must be terribly ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton London
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1900
Dustjacket
Yes
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780340826300
SKU
KNW0007813
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Hodder & Stoughton
Libby Purves is a writer and also a broadcaster who has presented the talk programme Midweek on Radio 4 since 1984 and formerly presented Today. She is a main columnist on the Times and in 1999 was named the Granada "What the Papers Say" Columnist of the Year, and awarded an O.B.E for services to journalism. She lives ... Read more
Reviews for Acting Up
'An eclectic mix of meticulously researched settings ... Purves's prose is clear and unfussy'
Observer 'Convincing and enjoyable ... there is a warmth and sincerity about this novel that makes one care about its outcome.'
Sunday Telegraph 'A joy to read'
Good Book Guide
Observer 'Convincing and enjoyable ... there is a warmth and sincerity about this novel that makes one care about its outcome.'
Sunday Telegraph 'A joy to read'
Good Book Guide