Herself Surprised To Be a Pil

About the book

Herself Surprised To Be a Pil by Joyce Cary is a classic novel trilogy for adult readers.

The only hardback one-volume edition of Cary's classic trilogy, in which three remarkably different characters narrate their interlocking stories across half a century in a gloriously inventive and dazzling triptych. From her prison cell, the irrepressible, magnetic Sara Monday looks back on the past half-century of her life in Herself Surprised. Born into a poor family, her employment while still a young girl as a cook in a middle-class household set her on a colourful and picaresque path.

In To Be a Pilgrim, Tom Wilcher, a wealthy and disgraced lawyer who has been both Sara's employer and her lover, has retreated to his estate near the end of his life to wrestle with his tormented conscience. And the centre of The Horse's Mouth, a charming, talented, impoverished artist named Gulley Jimson-also a lover of Sara Monday-is a restless, rebellious, and self-serving scoundrel whose antics verge on the appalling and farcical.

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