Herself Surprised

Joyce Cary

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From her prison cell, the irrepressible, magnetic Sara Monday looks back on the past half-century of her life in 'Herself Surprised'. Born into a poor family, her employment while still a young girl as a cook in a middle-class household set her on a colourful and picaresque path. In 'To Be a Pilgrim', Tom Wilcher, a wealthy and disgraced lawyer who has been both Sara's employer and her lover, has retreated to his estate near the end of his life to wrestle with his tormented conscience. And the centre of 'The Horse's Mouth', a charming, talented, impoverished artist named Gulley Jimson - also a lover of Sara Monday - is a restless, rebellious, and self-serving scoundrel whose antics verge on the appalling and farcical.


Author(s): Cary, Joyce
Binding: Hardback
Date of Publication: 25/09/2025
Pagination: 1396 pages
Series: N/A
Imprint: Everyman
Published By: Everyman
Book Classification: Classic fiction|Anthologies: general
Dimensions: 212x135x42
Weight: 792
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781841594347

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