Description of book
When Thomas Wavery arrives in Gibraltar on his way to take up his last posting as HM Consul General to Abyla, his passport is stolen by a barbary ape. Ignominy and shame have dogged his steps since he lost both the coveted Lisbon Embassy and his wife as a result of an affair with a younger woman
Reviews
'He tells a story like an angel…Wonderful' Observer
'A deeply satisfying book. I feel quite exceptionally inclined to read it all over again' Rosemary Stoyle, Literary Review
'Shakespeare has completed a richly detailed, remarkably complete imaginary world' The Times
'Wavery's story has a lyric simplicity and an emotional subtlety that are moving, involving and beautifully observed' Independent
'His lyricism is all his own and he raises his lovers to a plateau of passion where Greene never ventured' Sunday Telegraph
'The Vision of Elena Silves was almost too precociously good. The High Flyer rolls back the doors of the Shakespearian bunker to reveal the arsenal within. It's a very good novel' William Boyd