4 Novels by Sandi Toksvig
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Overview:Sandra Brigitte "Sandi" Toksvig (born 3 May 1958) is a Danish/British author and presenter on British radio and television. She has written more than twenty fiction and non-fiction books for children and adults
Genre: Humor
Flying Under Bridges Inge Holbrook has lived the highlife ever since she left her sleepy Home Counties hometown of Edenford. Still fantastically fit at forty-plus, she has gone from Olympic gold medallist to becoming one of the ‘faces’ of the BBC. Blonde (since ’87), tanned (since Christmas in the Caribbean) long legs (since forever), she has an aura of success that never fails to be attractive. Eve Marshall hasn’t. Catching her reflection in a tinfoil turkey display at her local supermarket, she sees someone old and fat, someone who looks like somebody’s mother. Unlike her school friend Inge, Eve never left suburbia. Her contribution to the world wasn’t to write or invent or win anything, but her two children, Tom and Shirley. Inge and Eve are part of the same generation, grew up in the same town, went to the same school together. But adult life has left them with nothing in common apart from their past — until the summer when their lives become entwined again, when one becomes a killer, and the other approves …
Gladys Reunited: A Personal American Journey In 1971, Sandi Toksvig was sent to Mamaroneck High in New York, where at age 13, she fell in love with the theater. The school production that year was Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth, and she was among the three girls chosen to play the lead role of Gladys Antrobus. Before long, the three Gladyses” were inseparable friends, and by the time the play debuted, The Gladys Society” had stretched to twelve members. Thirty years on and living in England, Sandi decided to return to the States to discover what had happened to her eleven fellow Gladyses and, in the process, revisit America. By turns hilarious and moving, this is a delightfully engaging story of friends united and a country rediscovered.
Melted into Air: A Comedy of Errors in the Umbrian Hills Frances Angel, drunk and disgruntled, arrives in Italy to attend the I Zingari Art School, leaving behind her dazzling career as a successful theatrical impresario and returning to a distant and painful past. She falls into an eclectic group composed of performance artists, ex-soldiers, and a housewife who really just wants to paint something to match her settee. In the village a scale replica of the La Scala opera house becomes the setting for the great drama of Frances’s past to be played out on the world’s smallest stage. Frances expected to find some answers, but what she didn’t expect was romance and quite so much farce.
Whistling For The Elephants There are two basic types of animal in Nature’s Kingdom. The first, like lions and turtles, produce many offspring and simply hope that some will survive. The second, like elephants and people, produce one or two at long intervals and make great efforts to rear them. My mother belonged in a class of her own. She produced two at short intervals and made no effort to rear them whatsoever.
Thus Dorothy, aged ten, finds herself making her own way in Sassaspaneck, New York in 1968. Her English father, who never talks above a whisper due to a youthful injury with a cricket ball, has tucked her and her mother away where the potential for embarrassment can be limited. All the other children in town have gone to camp, so Dorothy must provide her own entertainment. She comes across a small, faded zoo on the outskirts of town, and as she begins to get to know the eccentric group of women who live there she begins to discover a world way beyond the one she has glimpsed so far.
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