Dimensions
130 x 197 x 15mm
Whitbread First Novel Award 1996.
Tarquin Winot, voluptuary and supercivilised ironist (and snob), sets out on a journey of the senses from the Hotel Splendide, Portsmouth, to his cottage in Provence, his spiritual home. With his head newly shaved and his well-thumbed copy of the 'Mossad Manual of Surveillance Techniques' safely stowed, Tarquin elegantly introduces his life, itself a work of art, through the medium of seasonal menus.
