Stratford Literary Festival 2011- Barbara Trapido Highlights

Barbara Trapido is an outstanding novelist whose books include Brother of the More Famous Jack (winner of a Whitbread Special Prize For Fiction), Temples of Delight (shortlisted for the Sunday Express Book of the Year
Award), The Travelling Hornplayer (shortlisted for the 1998 Whitbread Novel Award), and, most recently, Frankie and Stankie (shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize). Her latest, Sex & Stravinsky, is a wonderful comedy of errors set in England and Africa in 1995, in which everybody is linked by their past. In its mix of people from different spheres, the book throws up the complexity, cruelty and richness of the global world while, as a sequence of personal stories, it comes together like a dance; a masquerade in which things are not always what they seem.
Music by Jack Blackman.

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