Derby Day: A NovelNominated for the Man Booker Prize, an exquisite tale of romance and rivalry, gambling and greed, from one of England’s finest writers As the shadows lengthen over the June grass, all England is heading for Epsom Down—high life and low life, society beauties and Whitechapel street girls, bookmakers and gypsies, hawkers and thieves. Hopes are high, nerves are taut, hats are tossed in the air—this is Derby Day. For months people have been waiting and plotting for this day. Everyone’s eyes are on champion horse Tiberius, on whose performance half a dozen destinies depend. In this rich and exuberant novel, rife with the idioms of Victorian England, the mysteries pile high, propelling us toward the day of the great race, and we wait with bated breath as the story gallops to a finish that no one expects. |
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Contents
Part | |
The Conversation in Clipstone Court | |
Belgrave Square | |
An Addition to the Family | |
Scroop Hall | |
Marriage à la Mode | |
Part | |
A Situation in the Country | |
London and Lincolnshire | |
What Bells Life thought about | |
An Evening in the City | |
Part Three | |
Hounds upon the Scent | |
Captain McTurk Takes Charge | |
What The Star thought about | |
At Home and Abroad with Captain Raff | |
Boulognesurmer | |
What The Sportmans Magazine thought about | |
Mr Happertons Haunts and Homes | |
Shepherds Inn and elsewhere | |
The Triumph of a Modern | |
Visitors | |
More from Bells Life | |
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Common terms and phrases
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