PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
J.G. Farrell was born in Liverpool in 1935 and spent a good deal of his life abroad, including periods in France and North America, and then settled in London where he wrote most of his novels. Among his novels, TROUBLES won the Faber Memorial Prize in 1970 and the Lost Man Booker prize in 2010 and THE SIEGE OF KRISHNAPUR won the Booker Prize in 1973. In April 1979 he went to live in County Cork where only four months later he was drowned in a fishing accident.
Inspired, funny but ultimately tragic look at colonialism in India. It has an unusual exuberence - Mariella Frostrup For a novel to be witty is one thing, to tell a good story is another, to be serious is yet another, but to be all three is surely enough to make it a masterpiece - NEW STATESMAN His brilliance of style places him beside such masters of the modern novel as Patrick White and Saul Bellow - Olivia Manning A novel of quite outstanding quality - THE TIMES'
