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The Shrapnel Academy

by Fay Weldon

The Shrapnel Academy
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2nd June 1994

Price: £5.99

Genre

Crime & Mystery / Modern & Contemporary Fiction (post C 1945)

Selected:  Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780340599167

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‘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