{"product_id":"my-driver-maggie-gee-9781846590795","title":"My Driver","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy Driver\u003c\/i\u003e is an entertaining, droll novel, executed with a lovely, light touch. . . . Gee's control of tone is supremely artful.--Lionel Shriver, \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA tour de force--brilliantly structured, surprising, humane, and suspenseful.--Elaine Showalter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWorldly, witty, enjoyable, impressive.--Doris Lessing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVanessa Henman, a plucky but accident-prone white writer, flies from London to Uganda for a Pan-African writers' conference. She also intends to pay her former cleaner, Mary Tendo, a surprise visit. But Mary--now the executive housekeeper of the Sheraton Hotel in Kampala--has her own agenda, and she has secretly summoned Vanessa's beloved ex-husband Trevor, a plumber, to her home village to help build a well.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe conference over, Vanessa sets off alone on a safari to the distant Bwindi Impenetrable Forest to see the mountain gorillas. Farce teeters on the edge of something much darker when Vanessa quarrels with her driver and a bloody war closes in on Bwindi from Congo. Can anyone save her?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaggie Gee\u003c\/b\u003e was chosen as one of \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e's original Best Young British Novelists. She has published many novels to great acclaim, including \u003ci\u003eThe White Family\u003c\/i\u003e, shortlisted for the Orange and IMPAC prizes, and \u003ci\u003eMy Cleaner \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Flood\u003c\/i\u003e, which was longlisted for the Orange Prize. She was the first female chair of the Royal Society of Literature, and she lives in London.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maggie Gee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1846590795\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781846590795\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Telegram Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 366\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.10w x 1.10d","brand":"Maggie Gee","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44125466099967,"sku":"9781846590795","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ca02ece8-5a3f-4881-aac6-5c567c6387da.jpg?v=1687442787","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/my-driver-maggie-gee-9781846590795","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}