The Missionary's Wife - Couverture souple

Jeal, Tim

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0751520977 ISBN 13 : 9780751520972

Editeur : Sphere, 1998

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Tim Jeal is an acclaimed novelist and biographer, whose Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer was published by Faber in 2007 and was a BBC Radio Four 'Book of the Week'. Stanley was named Sunday Times Biography of the Year, and, in the US, won the National Book Critics' Circle Award in Biography for 2007.

Tim's memoir Swimming with my Father was published by Faber in 2004 and was also a BBC Radio Four 'Book of the Week' and was shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Prize for autobiography.

In 2011 his Explorers of the Nile was published, shedding new light on the search for the source and on the relationship of Speke and Burton. It was also a BBC Radio Four Book of the Week and a New York Times Editor's Choice.

In 1973 Tim Jeal's Livingstone (1973) was selected as a 'Notable Book of the Year' by the New York Times Book Review and one of the 'Best and Brightest of the Year' by the Washington Post Book World. Livingstone formed the basis for a BBC TV documentary and a film for the Discovery Channel. It has never been out of print. Nor has Tim Jeal's Baden-Powell (1989), which was a 'Notable Book of the Year', and was chosen by Channel 4 for its 'Secret Lives' strand.

In 1975 Tim was awarded the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize for his third novel. All his novels - eight in number - are being reissued in 2013 as Faber Finds.

Présentation de l'éditeur

In The Missionary's Wife (1996) - his return to historical fiction - Tim Jeal expertly evoked Africa in the 1890s: a continent in turmoil as a horde of prospecters, hunters and missionaries scramble after gold, ivory, and converts. Young Englishwoman Clara Musson, though, travels with a different purpose. Jilted in love, doubting her Christian faith, she hoped to find renewed meaning as the wife of charismatic missionary Robert Haslam. What she finds is an obsessive zeal that will provoke a civil war.

'A powerful love story fleshed out with vivid historical detail, narrative tension and subtle post-colonial awareness... remarkably engaging and skilfully told.' Guardian

'Jeal brilliantly evokes the sights and sounds and smells of 1890s Africa.' Sunday Times

'Brilliantly plotted... a book of deep moral intelligence.' Lynn Barber, Literary Review

'Gripping... moving and convincing.' Allan Massie, Scotsman

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Sphere
• Date d'édition: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0751520977
• ISBN 13: 9780751520972
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352