Tree of Pearls (The Angeline Gower Trilogy, Book 3)

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The final instalment in Louisa Young's critically acclaimed series. What life will Angeline choose? Trouble is back and has Angeline Gower in its sights. She's only just caught her breath when a new onslaught of dilemmas starts to knock at her door. First on the docket is her fateful adversary, Eddie Bates, the trickster who leads her straight to Luxor and right into the arms of her next dilemma, her old lover Sa'id. With her heart being torn in several directions, Angeline's life shows no signs of slowing down. Would she have it any other way? Angeline is a heroine of the new guard in the final instalment of Louisa Young's deliciously funny and razor-sharp trilogy.

Louisa Young was a journalist for some years. Her first book was A Great Task of Happiness (1995), the life of Kathleen Bruce, her grandmother, the sculptor and wife of Scott of the Antarctic. She followed that with her Egyptian trilogy of novels: Baby Love (which was listed for the Orange Prize), Desiring Cairo and Tree of Pearls. They were followed by The Book of the Heart, a cultural history of our most symbolic organ. She has also published a trilogy of children's novels, written with her ten-year-old daughter under the pseudonym Zizou Corder. Her most recent novel, The Heroes' Welcome is a follow-up to the 2011 bestseller My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You, which was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2011 and the Wellcome Book Prize, was a Richard and Judy Book Club choice, and the first ever winner of the Galaxy Audiobook of the Year. She lives in London with her daughter.

Praise for Louisa Young's trilogy: 'Spectacularly worth reading' The Times 'Tough, tender, sexy, funny' Esther Freud 'Hits an all too rare note of intelligent escapism' She 'Streetwise and literate' Options 'Wry, perky, entertaining' Observer 'Engaging, wise-cracking, likeable, brilliantly sustained...funny, humane and utterly readable' Good Housekeeping