Travels with my Aunt Knopf battle and conquest

battle and conquest

all but married (to Jack

battlefield where his military skills are tested

During the school holidays

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Travels with my Aunt Knopf battle and conquestHenry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at what he supposes to be his mother's funeral. Soon after, she persuades Henry to abandon Southwood, his dahlias and the Major next door to travel her way, Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, Paraguay. Through Aunt Augusta, a veteran of Europe's hotel bedrooms, Henry joins a shiftless, twilight society: mixing with hippies, war criminals, CIA