The Shrapnel Academy
On the anniversary of the Eve of the Battle of Waterloo, an assortment of unusual dinner guests gather at a remote country house to pay homage to Henry Shrapnel, inventor of the exploding cannonball. But all is not peaceful at the Shrapnel Academy: The downstairs servants, a group of third-world refugees led by a South African butler, are plotting to overthrow their upstairs oppressors. When a blizzard hits the countryside and traps everyone indoors, the rebellion erupts into bloody warfare throughout the Academy... Now in her ninth decade, Fay Weldon is one of the foremost chroniclers of our time, a novelist who spoke to an entire generation…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-78185-803-5
- EAN: 9781781858035
- Produktnummer: 19673291
- Verlag: Head of Zeus
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 193 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'978 KB
Über den Autor
Weldon's work includes more than twenty novels, five collections of short stories, several children's books, nonfiction books, magazine articles, and a number of plays written for television, radio, and the stage. She was awarded a CBE in 2001.
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