# The Queen Of The Tambourine

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- Book: [The Queen Of The Tambourine](https://www.bookquiver.com/jane-gardam/the-queen-of-the-tambourine) ([The Queen Of The Tambourine.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jane-gardam/the-queen-of-the-tambourine.md))
- Authors: [Jane Gardam](https://www.bookquiver.com/jane-gardam)
- Publisher: abacus
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-0551-623-5
- Published: 2012-03-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

'Excellently done . . . Manic delusions have never been so persuasive . . . Very moving when it is not being exceedingly funny' Anita Brookner 'An ingenious, funny, satirical, sad story . . . Vivid and poignant' Independent on Sunday 'Wickedly comic . . . masterly and hugely enjoyable' Daily Mail Eliza Peabody is one of those dangerously blameless women who believes she has God in her pocket. She is too enthusiastic; she talks too much. Her concern for the welfare of her wealthySouth London neighbours extends to ingenuous well-meaning notes of unsolicited adviceunder the door. It is just such a one-sided correspondence that heralds Eliza's undoing. Did her letter have something to do with the woman's abrupt disappearance ? Why will no-one else speak of her? And why the watchful, pitying looks and embarassment that now greet her?