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Julius J. Hammer is eighty-one and has been many things, a law professor, a judge and a writer of renown, but a brain haemorrhage has left him shaky, and his overbearing daughter has booked him onto a cruise round the Mediterranean. For nearly two weeks he must put up with the chatter on board. On a trip ashore in Corsica, out to buy cigars, he wanders into a Hollywood shoot and a Napoleon festival. Pearlene, who tells fortunes for the passengers, comes to his rescue, and he recognises her as the young student who turned his head in a creative writing class two decades ago. Old memories flood back.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

285 pages in the original

Set in

France

First published

2011 by Atlas

Author's age

71 when first published

ISBN

9789045082813 (original)

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