Dear Historian

DEAR HISTORIAN

• Publishing Company:

  PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE

• Imprint:

  JONATHAN CAPE

• Format:

  ONE SHOT

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• Number of Pages:

• Publication Date:

  12/03/26

• Age:

• Fiction/Non-Fiction

  FICTION

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• Summary:

  Septuagenarian historian and university professor Margaret Crypt is being courted by the history-orientated TV production company Giant Past TV & Media – the brainchild-cum-vanity-project of ubiquitous and extravagantly pony-tailed self-made TV historian Allan Hands.

  As Margaret is drawn somewhat reluctantly into the world of television production, she forms a tentative bond with Lucy, a young producer several decades Margaret’s junior. Both women are facing difficulties in their respective lives – Lucy recently heartbroken by a her long-term fiancé, Margaret grieving for her older sister (her best friend and housemate for the last 30 years).

  Though Margaret instinctively shuns any prospect of the conventional lure of appearing on television, she begins to show rather more interest on learning that the potential programme could be a means to funding further research into her particular passion – the life and work of an obscure 17th century embalmer, doctor and poet named John Witham Preece…

  Looking at themes such as unlikely friendships, positive and negative solitudes, ageism, the nature of the introvert, anti-careerism, the cult of personality, graveyards in the rain, bad knees… Dear Historian is an irreverent and wonderfully witty novel in graphic form.