This novel is one of Anthony Burgess's most accessible and entertaining works. By turns bawdy, raucous, tender and bittersweet, and full of music and songs, this is a warm and affectionate portrait of the working-class Lancashire of the 1920s and 1930s that he knew from his...
A comic romp through the life of Ellen Henshaw, retired in the south of France after a career of entertaining gentlemen. Ellen recalls her travels and travails with her piano-playing father, an unsung genius brought down by women and drink.