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Stylish, suburban Katherine is eighteen when she is propelled into the centre of Professor Jacob Goldman's rambling home and his large eccentric family. As his enchanting yet sharp-tongued wife Jane gives birth to her sixth child, Katherine meets the volatile, stroppy Jonathan and his older, more beautiful brother Roger, who wins her heart. First love quickly leads to heartbreak and sends her fleeing to Rome but, ten years on, she returns to find the Goldmans again. A little wiser and a lot more grown-up, Katherine faces her future.
Brother of the More Famous Jack is Barbara Trapido's highly acclaimed and much loved debut; a book that redefined the coming-of-age novel.
About the Author
Barbara Trapido is the author of seven novels including Brother of the More Famous Jack (winner of a Whitbread special prize for fiction), Temples of Delight(shortlisted for the Sunday Express Book of the Year Award), The Travelling Horn Player (shortlisted for the 1998 Whitbread Novel Award), and, most recently, Frankie & Stankie (shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize). She lives in Oxford.
In its mix of people from different spheres, Sex and Stravinsky, published by Bloomsbury in May 2010 and in paperback in May 2011, throws up the complexity, cruelty and richness of the global world while, as a sequence of personal stories, it comes together like a dance; a masquerade in which things are not always what they seem.
In The Press
‘Perfect characters and dialogue – the most satisfying book I’ve ever read’
Jane Green, Red
‘A story, like Mansfield Park, of falling in love with a whole family’
A. N. Wilson, Spectator
‘The style is hectic and passionate, the jokes thick and fast, the emotions full and right, the humanity total and engulfing … a first fruit to savour and exalt’
Andrew Sinclair, The Times
‘There are few modern tales of first love and its disillusions that are as thoroughly realised, as brilliantly lewd, and as hilariously satisfying to men and women of all ages as this one’
Rachel Cusk
