My Driver

Présentation de l'éditeur Vanessa Henman, a plucky but accident-prone white writer, flies out to Uganda for an African writers' conference. She also means to visit her former cleaner, Ugandan Mary Tendo, now the successful Executive Housekeeper of Kampala's Sheraton Hotel. But Mary has her own agenda: her son Jamil is missing, and she has secretly summoned Vanessa's beloved ex-husband Trevor, a plumber, to her village to help build a new well. Vanessa sets off alone on safari to distant Bwindi Impenetrable Forest to see the mountain gorillas. But then Vanessa quarrels with her driver and a bloody war closes in on Bwindi from Congo. Can anyone save her? Will Mary Tendo find her son? Revue de presse 'A fast-moving, energetic, constantly surprising book, which takes the reader on a big emotional journey: a book that makes you laugh when it doesn't make you flinch.' -- Hilary Mantel 'Maggie Gee has never given us a dull ordinary novel, and My Driver adds to an already impressive list. This is a book for people who will enjoy... the company of a worldly and witty writer.' -- Doris Lessing 'Brilliantly negotiates the explosive racial territory of the British abroad with feeling, observation, humour and art.' -- Elaine Showalter, Guardian Books of the Year 'Executed with a lovely, light touch ... an immensely enjoyable novel. Gee s control of tone is supremely artful.' -- Lionel Shriver, Daily Telegraph 'Witty and original ... There s no one like Maggie Gee when it comes to pointing out the absurdities of the middle classes ...' -- Kate Saunders, The Times Biographie de l'auteur Maggie Gee is the author of eleven acclaimed novels, including The White Family (shortlisted for the Orange and IMPAC prizes), My Cleaner and My Driver, and a memoir, My Animal Life. She is a Fellow and Vice-President of the Royal Society of Literature, and Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. Her work has been translated into fourteen languages. Maggie Gee was awarded an OBE in 2012 for her services to literature. She lives in London.