Author:Geoffrey Chaucer,Jill Mann

At the Tabard Inn in Southwark, a jovial group of pilgrims assembles, including an unscrupulous Pardoner, a noble-minded Knight, a ribald Miller, the lusty Wife of Bath, and Chaucer himself. As they set out on their journey towards the shrine of Thomas a Becket in Canterbury, each character agrees to tell a tale. The twenty-four tales that follow are by turns learned, fantastic, pious, melancholy and lewd, and together offer an unrivalled glimpse into the mind and spirit of medieval England.
Keyes's genius lies in making the darkest, most difficult aspects of humanity mentionable and manageable . . . Keyes's plot is cracking, but the story becomes even bolder and brighter because she lets her characters tell it
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—— GuardianFabulously brilliant
—— HeatWildly funny, romantic and nearly impossible to put down
—— Daily MailOne of the most widely enjoyed comic writers in Britain ... his position at the heart of British comedy is as assured as that of the seaside postcard
—— ObserverOur funniest living novelist
—— Daily TelegraphReaches a transcendental realm of its own. I couldn't even read it at times, because I was crying and choking with laughter
—— Daily ExpressSharpe is the funniest novelist currently writing ... I sat curled up with laughter
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