The Leopard's Wife

The Leopard's Wife is the fifth novel by British writer Paul Pickering. It was published by Simon & Schuster in the United States and United Kingdom in 2010. The novel was called ‘brilliant’ by The Times, the newspaper for which Pickering writes,[1] and "lackluster" by "Publishers Weekly".;[2]

The Leopard's Wife
AuthorPaul Pickering
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction, Literary Fiction
PublisherSimon & Schuster
Publication date
2010
Media typePrint (Hardback), (Paperback) and E-book
Pages352
ISBN978-1-84737-827-9

Like Pickering's previous novels, the chief concern of the novel is moral ambivalence both on the margins of order and in an increasingly post American world. Pickering travelled down the Congo River in the last stages of the war from Kisangani to Kinshasa to research the novel but had been planning the story partially based in a public school for 15 years.[3] The novel shows the link between such an education and what has happened to Africa today.

Notes
  1. Kate Saunders, The Times, 30 July 2010 http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/189957/Review-The-Leopard-s-Wife-Paul-Pickering
  2. Publishers Weekly, 02/22/2010http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-4391-6853-0
  3. Paul Pickering, "Journey to the Heart of the Congo", The Times, 18 October 2008
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