SAP Rising

by A.A. Gill

Book Overview

Buchan Gardens is a sedate square in West London. Charles Goodwin, the garden committee president, would like the garden to stay just the way it is. Lord Vernon of Barnstable, the appalling life peer, has plans for the garden. Bryony Mullins, the gusset-mouthed harridan, doesn't give a flying knicker elastic what happens to the garden as long as it's not what Vernon wants. Angel Tenby, the sexually organic gardener, wants the garden to run free...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0552996793
• ISBN13: 9780552996792
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Transworld Publishers
• Length: 320 Pages
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Satire at its sharpest

The travel writer/essayist/foodie A. A. Gill has two novels to his credit -- both brimming with wit and brilliance about British society. This one, set in an upper crust London district, is about a power struggle over a community garden, but is more about British society and its perfect eccentrics than local politics. Gill is pointed and raunchy, at times outrageous, but his satiric sense is right up there with Waugh and other vile bodies. The book is hard to find in the U.S., so grab it if you can find a copy.