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'Fast-moving, energetic, constantly surprising' Hilary Mantel ' 'A tour de force - brilliantly structured, surprising, humane, and suspenseful' Elaine Showalter 'Brilliant - just brilliant - this book deserves to be published in every language' Hillary Jordan --Endorsements
'Executed with a lovely, light touch - Gee's control of tone is supremely artful' Lionel Shriver --The Daily Telegraph
'Cunningly constructed and touchingly funny' Nick Rennison --Sunday Times
'Executed with a lovely, light touch - Gee's control of tone is supremely artful' Lionel Shriver --The Daily Telegraph
'Cunningly constructed and touchingly funny' Nick Rennison --Sunday Times
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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?
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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Granted it's only April, but I don't feel at all hasty in thinking this will be my favourite book of the year. I never feel compelled to write a review on Amazon - but waxing lyrical about this one to friends and family, I thought why not. First off, this book is very funny: delicately, cleverly, laugh-out-loudly. Maggie Gee has an eye, and each and every page is rich with images and insights that have stayed with me since finishing My Driver. High art, that makes you laugh, and cry: what more can you ask from a novel?
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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I highly recommend a newcomer to these novels to buy the set of three. Guaranteed good reading, in my humble opinion. My Driver has a very wide span - it never fails to keep you entranced. There are so many superb descriptions to enjoy, human nature and even gorilla nature coming under the microscope like eye of this very clever writer. Trevor the plumber ex husband of Vanessa being a huge hit all round in Uganda; what a dear and constant man. Vanessa and her busy mind develops wonderfully from her character in My Cleaner. Mary Tendo has moved on for sure but she is a solid lady with an innocent child like view of what's needed -at home in Uganda now she gets her own way for sure but she does mostly know best. There is high drama back in the UK also to be caught up in. What I loved most and will always remember about this book are the truly recognisable and touchingly observed travel passages, the atmosphere at Heathrow, the anxiety of travellers/tourists - their little ways and habits that are almost secret but oh so closely noted by Maggie Gee - she is a terrific recorder of modern life and she notices well - just everything!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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I'm a huge fan of Maggie Gee's novels. She is one of Britain's best writers and has been hugely critically acclaimed. My Driver is an exhilarating follow-up to the very funny My Cleaner. Her novels tackle serious heavyweight themes of our age with great subtley, originality and comedy. In My Driver, set mostly in Uganda. Maggie Gee has resurrected the wonderful fictional character of Vanessa Henman who first appeared in My Cleaner. Vanessa is well-meaning but very self-deceiving and this makes for brilliant characterisation. I really do recommend this novel, and My Cleaner, to anyone who is interested in Britain, British people and their relationship to race, Africans and their relationship to Britain. It is very much a book of our times. Go buy!
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