Book description
Sabine is the most mercurial woman Peter Thorpe has ever known. Such is
his desire for her that he overturns his whole life - his disillusioned
merchant-banker's life - and leaves everything behind, not caring that
his lover is of no fixed address, nor that his search for her will take
him to the beating heart of New Ageism in northern California. Each of
his fellow seekers is in hot pursuit of that elusive something
(happiness?), and in their eccentric company Peter stumbles across
vistas he had never before dared to imagine . . . 'St Aubyn has achieved
a comic novel which is more than a send-up and carries the message that
love is not quite all you need' Independent 'An intellectually informed,
richly insightful and vigorously funny take on the modern condition'
Sunday Times 'Pierced with goodwill, tenderness and a new kind of
thoughtfulness' Spectator 'His satire is unfailingly funny and immensely
satisfying' Guardian
Edward St Aubyn was born in London in 1960. He is also the author of
the highly acclaimed trilogy Some Hope, reissued by Picador in 2006,
and of Mother's Milk, which was shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker
Prize and won the South Bank Literature Award. On the Edge was
shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Award in 1998.
