Human Croquet

Author: Kate Atkinson

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  • : 19.99 AUD
  • : 9780552996198
  • : Transworld Publishers Limited
  • : Transworld Publishers Limited
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  • : 0.312979
  • : November 1997
  • : 198mm X 129mm
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  • : English
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Barcode 9780552996198
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Description

Once it had been the great forest of Lythe - a vast and impenetrable thicket of green.And here, in the beginning, lived the Fairfaxes, grandly, at Fairfax Manor, visited once by the great Gloriana herself. But over the centuries the forest had been destroyed, replaced by Streets of Trees.The Fairfaxes have dwindled too; now they live in 'Arden' at the end of Hawthorne Close and are hardly a family at all. But Isobel Fairfax, who drops into pockets of time and out again, knows about the past. She is sixteen and waiting for the return of her mother - the thin, dangerous Eliza with her scent of nicotine, Arp#65533;ge and sex, whose disappearance is part of the mystery that still remains at the heart of the forest.

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The brilliant novel from the author of the Whitbread prizewinner Behind the Scenes at the Museum.

Author description

Kate Atkinson was born in York and now lives in Edinburgh. Her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award. She is also the author of a collection of short stories, Not the End of the World, and of the critically acclaimed novels Human Croquet and Emotionally Weird. Her most recent bestseller, Case Histories, won the Saltire Book of the Year Award and the Prix Westminster. Her new novel, One Good Turn, is available now from Doubleday.