Sex and Stravinsky

AN ASTOUNDING NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF FRANKIE AND STANKIE AND BROTHER OF THE MORE FAMOUS JACK____________________''A dazzling achievement. It''s beautifully-written, deftly-plotted and moves skilfully from domestic drama to global themes and back again'' - Daily Express''Delightful and brilliantly choreographed comedy'' - Sunday Times____________________The time is 1995, but everybody has a past. Brilliant Australian Caroline can command everyone except her own ghoulish mother, which means that things aren''t easy for Josh and Zoe, her husband with Stravinsky-glasses and twelve-year-old daughter. Zoe reads girls'' ballet books and longs for lessons; a thing denied her until a chance encounter on a school French exchange. Meanwhile, on the east coast of Africa, Hattie, Josh''s first love, now writes girls'' ballet books - that''s when she can carve out the space between her husband and her crosspatch daughter. From far and wide, they are all drawn together: a masquerade in which things are not always what they seem.____________________''This wonderful novel sparkles with Midsummer Night''s Dream magic'' - Daily Mail‘Beautifully structured, with flashes of wonderful eccentricity'' - The Times

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