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The Twyborn Affair
The Twyborn Affair
May 2, 2025 8:39 PM

Author:Patrick White

The Twyborn Affair

Eddie Twyborn is bisexual and beautiful, the son of a Judge and a drunken mother. With his androgynous hero - Eudoxia/Eddie/Eadith Twyborn - and through his search for identity, for self-affirmation and love in its many forms, Patrick White takes us into the ambiguous landscapes, sexual, psychological and spiritual, of the human condition.

Reviews

[An] exploration of an extremely slippery characterological realm offers many substantial pleasures

—— Benjamin DeMott , New York Times

It challenges comparison with some of the world's most bizarre masterpieces

—— Financial Times

Patrick White is, in the finest sense, a world novelist. His themes are catholic and complex and he persues them with a single-minded energy and vision

—— Robert Nye , Guardian

Full-blooded, dramatic, exciting

—— Observer

Jean Plaidy knows her period and manages with skill a crowded cast

—— Times Literary Supplement

One of England's foremost historical novelists

—— Birmingham Mail

A fascinating historical romance ... vividly drawn

—— Manchester Evening News

Jean Plaidy shows the meticulous nature of her research and her ability to tell a good story without fuss or pretension

—— Sphere

Steve Bunce delivers a knockout read

—— David Haye

Buncey pulls no punches - a great read

—— Ricky Hatton
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