Education
Born in Cape Town and growing up in Durban she studied at the University of Natal gaining a Bachelor in 1963 before emigrating to London.
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Temples of Delight by Barbara Trapido (1992-05-01)
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Brother of the More Famous Jack by Barbara Trapido (1998-04-02)
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The Travelling Hornplayer by Barbara Trapido (2000-02-01)
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Brother of the More Famous Jack: A Novel
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Ask today's favorite novelists what books influenced their writing and you'll hear Brother of the More Famous Jack again and again. Dog-eared copies of this long out-of-print novel are highly prized and shared enthusiastically in literary circles-its return to print is cause for celebration. Stylish, suburban Katherine is eighteen when she is propelled into the heart of Professor Jacob Goldman's rambling home and his large eccentric family. As his enchanting yet sharp-tongued wife, Jane, gives birth to her sixth child, Katherine meets beautiful, sulky Roger and his volatile younger brother, Jonathan. Inevitable heartbreak sends her fleeing to Rome, but ten years later, older and wiser, she returns to find the Goldmans again. "Why did it take me so long to discover the singular joys of Barbara Trapido's novels? Why, for so many years, had I missed these witty, soulful, heartbreaking, expansive, brilliant tales? What have I been wasting my time doing? Reading books that AREN'T perfect? Never again! Since finally discovering Trapido in 2012, I have become a literary evangelist on her behalf. On account of my badgering, all my friends now love her, too. I won't rest until everyone in America has read (and fallen in love with) this fabulous author." -Elizabeth Gilbert
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Temples of Delight
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Jem McCrail is a fantastical godsend to the timid young Alice Pilling. "Like a dropped acorn," she appears halfway through the week, halfway through the term, and halfway through Miss Aldridge's Silent Reading Hour. Through the doorway she barely clears, wearing clothes like the urchin she encountered in her favorite P. G. Wodehouse story, Jem leads the stammering Alice into a world of culture, truancy, and bizarrerie--a world far beyond the dull lessons of school. The girls cultivate a steadfast bond based on a wicked and encircling sense of humor, an impish joy in indelicate literature, and Mozart's The Magic Flute. Then, as abruptly as she came, Jem disappears. The years and schools that follow, as well as the lovers, do not dim the image of the wondrous Jem. The disheartened Alice is almost ready to settle into an ordinary life when an accident and the intervention of a latter-day fallen angel impel her to go on one more wild and extravagant journey. Like the opera it echoes, the result is pure enchantment. "Why did it take me so long to discover the singular joys of Barbara Trapido's novels? Why, for so many years, had I missed these witty, soulful, heartbreaking, expansive, brilliant tales? I have become a literary evangelist on her behalf. On account of my badgering, all my friends now love her, too.I won't rest until everyone in America has read (and fallen in love with) this fabulous author." --Elizabeth Gilbert
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Temples of Delight
(The moment Jem joins her class in the middle of Silent Re...)
The moment Jem joins her class in the middle of Silent Reading, Alice knows her life is changed. Jem seduces Alice with esoteric literature and the fabric of the past - and then she vanishes. Five years on, Jem blazes across her sphere again. And then the infuriating Giovanni appears.
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The Travelling Hornplayer
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Barbara Trapido
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After many years teaching, she became a full-time writer in 1970. Trapido has published six novels, three of which have been nominated for the Whitbread Prize. Her semi-autobiographical Frankie & Stankie, one of those shortlisted, which deals with growing up white under apartheid, gained a great deal of critical attention, most of it favourable.
lieutenant was also longlisted for the Booker prize.
At a literary event in Abingdon in March 2008, Barbara read extracts from an as yet unpublished 7th novel. Barbara Trapido lives with her family in Oxford and some of her books have Oxford connections.
Frankie & Stankie, Observer newspaper
Frankie & Stankie, Telegraph newspaper
Sex & Stravinsky, The Independent newspaper.
Works
book
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Brother of the More Famous Jack: A Novel
( Ask today's favorite novelists what books influenced th...)
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Temples of Delight
(The moment Jem joins her class in the middle of Silent Re...)
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Temples of Delight
( Jem McCrail is a fantastical godsend to the timid young...)
- Temples of Delight by Barbara Trapido (1992-05-01)
- Brother of the More Famous Jack by Barbara Trapido (1998-04-02)
- The Travelling Hornplayer by Barbara Trapido (2000-02-01)
- The Travelling Hornplayer
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Brother of the More Famous Jack: A Novel
