{"product_id":"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\u003e\"A tour de force—brilliantly structured, surprising, humane, and suspenseful.\"—Elaine Showalter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Worldly, 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\u003e and \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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Telegram Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47060794474736,"sku":"9781846590795","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781846590795_p0.jpg?v=1763748012","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781846590795","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}