Tropic Of Ruislip
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Tropic Of Ruislip
By (Author) Leslie Thomas
Ebury Publishing
Cedar Books
15th December 1997
4th December 1997
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
823.914
Physical Properties
Paperback
256
Width 110mm, Height 178mm, Spine 16mm
139g
Description
TROPIC OF RUISLIP is a sage for life on a modern executive housing estate, seething with the fears, snobbereis, frustrations and lusts of well-heeled young couples trundling uneasily towards middle age.
Author Bio
Born in Newport, Monmouthshire in 1931, Leslie Thomas is the son of a sailor who was lost at sea in 1943. His boyhood in an orphanage is evoked in This Time Next Week published in 1964. At sixteen, he became a reporter, before going on to do his national service. He won worldwide acclaim with his bestselling novel The Virgin Soldiers, which has achieved international sales of over two million copies.
