© Fazi, 2000
A versatile writer throughout his career, Moore set his last novel in Algeria during the reign of Napoleon III. Henri Lambert, Europe's leading magician, is sent there by the Emperor who hopes that his illusionist's talents will persuade the Arabs, poised for holy war, to submit to the superior powers of the French empire. He is accompanied by his wife Emmeline, who, liberated by her new environment, threatens the outcome of the French mission and risks her own life in an act of courage and betrayal that will have unforeseen and dangerous consequences, and leave her profoundly changed. Inspired by a true story, The Magician's Wife sweeps from the splendour and pageantry of the French court to the majesty and mystery of the Sahara.
Bloomsbury 1997
Translated into: Italian
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