A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar
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Pub Date 7 Mar 2012 | Archive Date 1 Sep 2012
Description
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.
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.
Advance Praise
“A haunting, original and beautifully written tale that conveys a sense of profound alienation, and of other realities” – Paul Torday, bestselling author of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
“A haunting, original and beautifully written tale that conveys a sense of profound alienation, and of other realities” – Paul Torday, bestselling author of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781408830918 |
| PRICE | £7.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 384 |
