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  • Published: 13 September 2011
  • ISBN: 9780241952634
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 816
  • RRP: $39.99

The Salterton Trilogy

Tempest-Tost, Leaven of Malice, A Mixture of Frailties



Reissue of this classic trilogy comprising Tempest-Tost, Leaven of Malice and A Mixture of Frailties

In the small university town of Salterton, Ontario, dreams are quietly taking shape, or falling apart. There's the Salterton Little Theatre Company, in which professional director Valentine Rich is tormented by the amateurish efforts of his actors. The families Vambrace and Bridgetower almost go to war over a fake notice of engagement in the local paper. And a family fortune is lavished on an aspiring singer because there is no male heir to claim it. Tracing the lives and incidents of a small community in the middle of the last century, The Salterton Trilogy peels off the public veneer of geniality and respectability to reveal the private passions simmering beneath.

  • Published: 13 September 2011
  • ISBN: 9780241952634
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 816
  • RRP: $39.99

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Praise for The Salterton Trilogy

The kind of writer who makes you want to nag your friends until they read him so that they share the pleasure

Observer

Davies' books will be recognized with the very best works of the twentieth century

New York Times Book Review

Impudent, amused, and amusing, and sterling entertainment

New York Times

One of the great modern novelists

Malcolm Bradbury

Ingenuous, erudite and entertaining. Davies displays all the qualities of a latter-day Trollope

Anthony Burgess, Observer