The Leopard's Wife
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The Leopard's Wife is the fifth novel by British writer Paul Pickering
. It was published by Simon & Schuster
in the United States
and United Kingdom
in 2010. The novel received very favourable reviews and was called ‘brilliant’ by The Times.
Like Pickering's previous novels, the chief concern of the novel is moral ambivalence both on the margins of order and in an increasingly post American world. Pickering travelled down the Congo River
in the last stages of the war from Kisangani
to Kinshasa to research the novel but had been planning the story partially based in a public school for 15 years. The novel shows the link between such an education and what has happened to Africa today.
Paul Pickering
- Early Life :Pickering was born in Rotherham, Yorkshire, the son of Arthur Samuel Pickering and Lorna . He was educated at the Royal Masonic School for Boys in Bushey, Hertfordshire, and at the University of Leicester.- Career :...
. It was published by Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster, Inc., a division of CBS Corporation, is a publisher founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster. It is one of the four largest English-language publishers, alongside Random House, Penguin and HarperCollins...
in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
and United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
in 2010. The novel received very favourable reviews and was called ‘brilliant’ by The Times.
Like Pickering's previous novels, the chief concern of the novel is moral ambivalence both on the margins of order and in an increasingly post American world. Pickering travelled down the Congo River
Congo River
The Congo River is a river in Africa, and is the deepest river in the world, with measured depths in excess of . It is the second largest river in the world by volume of water discharged, though it has only one-fifth the volume of the world's largest river, the Amazon...
in the last stages of the war from Kisangani
Kisangani
Kisangani is the capital of Orientale Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is the 3rd largest urbanized city in the country and the largest of the cities that lie in the tropical woodlands of the Congo....
to Kinshasa to research the novel but had been planning the story partially based in a public school for 15 years. The novel shows the link between such an education and what has happened to Africa today.
External links
- Debrett's People of Today 21 August 2005
- Collected reviews
- Paul Pickering at Simon & Schuster USA.
- Paul Pickering at Simon & Schuster UK.
- Paul Pickering's website