Books
by Barbara Trapido
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Brother of the More Famous Jack |
Having never read Trapido before, I feel I've uncovered a new seam of enjoyment. It focuses on a bookish but stylish eighteen-year-old escaping a stifling home life, and the influence on her of the bohemian, self-opinionated Goldmans. Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, it's a kind of Brideshead Revisited meets I Capture the Castle, but more modern and raunchy. The ending demands a sequel - and apparently there is one, which I hope won't disappoint.
(Annie Noble - bwl 37 December 2006) |
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Frankie & Strankie |
This strange book, purportedly a novel but surely a thinly disguised memoir is set in 1950s South Africa. Told through the eyes of a young, white girl growing up at a time when racial laws are being tightened, it is not only a chronicle of the often hilarious pains and pleasures of childhood, adolescence and early adulthood but provides an inside view of the attitudes and politics which led to the insidious growth of apartheid.
(Jenny Baker - bwl 27 December 2004) |
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The Travelling Hornplayer |
If you're a fan of Trapido, you'll love this one. It's full of zany characters and comedy that teeters on the edge of tragedy. It begins with a girl killed in a car accident whose ghost haunts and affects the lives of all those around her.
(Jenny Baker - bwl 1 January 2000) |
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