A retired London financial institution supervisor is yanked out of the suburbs by his eccentric aunt for a “cheerfully irreverent” romp throughout Europe (The Guardian).
Now that the dullish Henry Pulling has left his job with an agreeable pension and a agency handshake, he plans to spend extra time weeding his dahlias. Then, for the primary time in fifty years, he sees his aunt Augusta at his mom’s funeral. Charging into her seventies with florid abandon, not a day of her life wasted, and her future as brilliant as her sensible purple hair, Augusta insists that Henry abandon his backyard, comply with her, and maintain on tight.
With that, she whisks her nephew out of Brighton and boards the Orient Specific certain for Paris and Istanbul, then on to Paraguay, and down the rabbit gap of her previous that swarms with swindlers, smugglers, battle criminals, and moderately unconventional lovers. With every new cease, Henry discovers not solely extra about his aunt and her secrets and techniques but in addition about himself as nicely.
Pulsing with “the tragic and comedian ironies of affection, loyalty and perception” Graham Greene’s misleading lark of novel was made into the 1972 movie starring Maggie Smith (The Instances, London).
ASIN : B07CMK81TT
Writer : Open Highway Media (April 10, 2018)
Publication date : April 10, 2018
Language : English
File measurement : 5565 KB
Textual content-to-Speech : Enabled
Display Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Enabled
Phrase Sensible : Enabled
Print size : 320 pages
Web page numbers supply ISBN : 1412807417
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