Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 December 2019.

It is also deeply satirical and one of those books which would grow funnier with understanding. But I am glad I was drunk", Great read.

So, see it through; and do read it properly rather than skipping over what appear to be boring God bits - it all makes a terrible sense in the end. I should probably warn people that I'm on a weird kick of 1950s English popular fiction by women.

I wanted to read this book because it was a humorous fictionalized trip to Turkey (where I've been) on the part of the author, along with her eccentric aunt and a camel. She is or wants to be religious but confesses and demonstrates that she has no clear sense of right or wrong to call her own.

"In short, I am sober again.

You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. The Turkish doctor says of Aunt Dot, "She is a woman of dreams. The book really rides or falls with the narrator, Laurie, and despite being reflective she also seems rather dim. If the story had been sustained as a goofy satire on various absurdities I would have loved it; if it had turned into a deeper exploration of faith and doubt I would have respected it and been absorbed.

The narrator Laurie and her (her sex is unclear until near the end of the story) aunt Dot, together with her aunt's Anglo-Catholic chaplain Father Hugh Chantry-Pigg, set out for Trebizond, the site of the last Roman empire, with a camel. World travelers; British women with a sense of humor.

I have this book on my to-read pile. Engaging semi-satire, partly autobiographical, opened up by occasional bursts of grace, and blissfully lacking in "cute." Please try your request again later. The book was published in multiple languages including English, consists of 277 pages and is available in Paperback format. This story describes the experiences of a group of people on a trip to Turkey. Read this humorous, warmly satirical, adventure-travel novel years ago and was just reminded of its pleasures as I began a reread of the authors collection of essays appropriately titled Personal Pleasures.

I have read this superb novel so many times and always with immense joy and delight: I would therefore like to bring it to the attention of readers who have perhaps not come across Rose Macauley and this tale full of wit and wisdom, travel, history, philosophy, humour and sadness, nostalgia , views on life and religion, love and loss. Prime members enjoy fast & free shipping, unlimited streaming of movies and TV shows with Prime Video and many more exclusive benefits.

Dame Emilie Rose Macaulay, DBE (1 August 1881 – 30 October 1958) was an English writer, most noted for her award-winning novel The Towers of Trebizond, about a small Anglo-Catholic group crossing Turkey by camel. Recommended only to unwavering Anglophiles. To see what your friends thought of this book. Hein, David. Halide, the Turkish doctor, interested be greatly, and I'd love to hear the story retold from her point of view. In fact, Macaulay's prose "sells" the story with its deep-down integrity no matter how silly the characters or sillier the circumstances they face. Known by many people simply for its fabulous opening line: Rose Macaulay was recommended to me as a great minor author by Mr. Thomas Banks of The Literary Life Podcast.

oh to travel, isn't that just the thing, everyone's favorite hobby, to get away and have adventures, see life from different angles, take in history and view the panorama of the world all at the same time, you go some wheres and see some things, but unless you are traveling for pure thrill-seeking or just to find a new setting to drink and to flirt, you go to someplace and see those things and you are really seeing all the things before them, the history of a place, reading and thinking and drea. "Take my camel, dear", said my Aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return from High Mass. The characters' names alone were humorous(Father Chantry-Pigg). Engaging semi-satire, partly autobiographical, opened up by occasional bursts of grace, and blissfully lacking in "cute."

Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. And this was enormously popular when it came out. This book improved noticeably once Aunt Dot and Father Chantrey-Pigg move off center stage.

I must control myself, and not write to booksellers in haste ..." Or, for me, not keep adding to my towering TBR list!!!

Excellent Women (VMC) (Virago Modern Classics), The World My Wilderness (Virago Modern Classics), The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid: Travels Through my Childhood (Bryson), The Secret Doctrine: Volume One - Cosmogenesis: Volume 1, The Tortoise And The Hare (Virago Modern Classics), Wild Strawberries: A Virago Modern Classic (VMC): 3 (Virago Modern Classics).

Rose Macaulay was born into an intellectual family in 1881 in Rugby. At some points I was laughing out loud (teaching the monkey how to drive Aunt Dot's car!).

[The narrator is having a long-term affair with a married man, and some of her spiritual doubt is presented in the context of this affair.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 November 2017. At another level the book, against its Anglo-Catholic backdrop, deals with the conflict between Laurie's attraction to Christianity and her adulterous love for a married man.

After all, life, for all its agonies of despair and loss and guilt, is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing, full of liking and of love, at times a poem and a high adventure, at times noble and at times very gay; and whatever (if anything) is to come after it, we shall not have this life again.”, James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (1956), really wonder about this book?trebizond has a deep history.pontic,persian ,ottoman ... and istanbul is the other name of history, See 1 question about The Towers of Trebizond…, "Comedy" on The Guardian's "1000 Novels Everyone Must Read", Reclaiming the Abandoned places of Empire | Khanya, Notes from underground: Abandoned places of empire, SOLVED. Try again. In David Hein and Edward Henderson, eds.. Moore, Judith (15 November 1978).

There are a lot of jokes about Anglicanism, many more than I thought were possible, actually.

[2] This was a problem Macaulay had faced in her own life, having had an affair with the married novelist and former Roman Catholic priest Gerald O'Donovan (1871–1942) from 1920 until his death.

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