A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar (Signed)
by Joinson, Suzanne
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (in protective sleeve); blue boards, metallic blue spine titling bright; text block firm,
- ISBN 10
- 1408825147
- ISBN 13
- 9781408825143
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About This Item
London: Bloomsbury, 2012. 1st. h/b. Very good, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (in protective sleeve); blue boards, metallic blue spine titling bright; text block firm, pages crisp and unmarked, but foxing on edges and endpapers. Signed to title.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). It is 1923 and Evangeline English, keen lady cyclist, arrives with her sister Lizzie at the ancient Silk Route city of Kashgar to help establish a Christian mission. Lizzie is in thrall to their forceful and unyielding leader Millicent, but Eva's motivations for leaving her bourgeois life back at home are less clear-cut. As they attempt to navigate their new home and are met with resistance and calamity, Eva commences work on her book, A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar... In present-day London another story is beginning. Frieda, a young woman adrift in her own life, opens her front door one night to find a man sleeping on the landing. In the morning he is gone, leaving on the wall an exquisite drawing of a long-tailed bird and a line of Arabic script. Tayeb, who has fled to England from Yemen, has arrived on Frieda's doorstep just as she learns that she is the next-of-kin to a dead woman she has never heard of: a woman whose abandoned flat contains many surprises - among them an ill-tempered owl. The two wanderers begin an unlikely friendship as their worlds collide, and they embark on a journey that is as great, and as unexpected, as Eva's. A stunning debut peopled by unforgettable characters, A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar is an extraordinary story of inheritance and the search for belonging in a fractured and globalised world.
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- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC133498
- Title
- A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar (Signed)
- Author
- Joinson, Suzanne
- Format/Binding
- H/b
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (in protective sleeve); blue boards, metallic blue spine titling bright; text block firm,
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1408825147
- ISBN 13
- 9781408825143
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2012
- Pages
- 375
- Size
- 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6"")
- Keywords
- 1st, historical fiction, fiction, signed, Silk Road, Joinson
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- X weight
- 0.55 g
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