'The setting of this enjoyable novel is the Shrapnel Academy, a country-house centre for the study of military excellence...Here, one winter weekend, a group of guests gather, for the eve-of-Waterloo dinner, and to hear Gen. Leo Makeshift deliver the annual Wellington lecture...Below stairs lurks a huge army of Third World servants with their illegal hangers-on, led by a lunatic African butler. Murder is plotted. Snow falls. All are trapped...that rare treat: a wildly funny, deeply serious, novel' Daily Telegraph
| ISBN: | 9780340599167 |
| Publication date: | 2nd June 1994 |
| Author: | Fay Weldon |
| Publisher: | Sceptre an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 203 pages |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Crime and Mystery |
'The setting of this enjoyable novel is the Shrapnel Academy, a country-house centre for the study of military excellence...Here, one winter weekend, a group of guests gather, for the eve-of-Waterloo dinner, and to hear Gen. Leo Makeshift deliver the annual Wellington lecture...Below stairs lurks a huge army of Third World servants with their illegal hangers-on, led by a lunatic African butler. Murder is plotted. Snow falls. All are trapped...that rare treat: a wildly funny, deeply serious, novel' Daily Telegraph
The Shrapnel Academy features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Crime and Mystery
The Shrapnel Academy is available in Paperback
The Shrapnel Academy was written by Fay Weldon and published by Sceptre an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton
The Shrapnel Academy has 203 pages