Summary
When his grandmother dies, and his grandfather is removed to a home, fifteen-year-old Danny determines to look after their elderly pig and ramshackle garden. Here, on the ragged edge of a blighted new town, Danny and his Indian girlfriend Surinder create a fragile haven from the enclosing world of racist neighbours and stifling families, a summer’s refuge from the precariousness of their future.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780340824122 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0340824123 |
| Author: | Andrew Cowan |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Sceptre |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 12 September 2002 |
| Weight: | 184g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 130mm x 19mm |
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The detail is immaculately recorded; the effect is heartbreaking
A coming-of-age story as strange and surprising, in its way, as THE CATCHER IN THE RYE - New York Times
Cowan’s writing is reminiscent of Roddy Doyle’s in his ability to recreate the intense emotions of youth. - The Good Book GuideA first novel of extraordinary poise and accomplishment, treating a boy’s coming of age amid the squalid realities of the new British underclass with a delicacy and lyricism which is both gripping and moving - Michael DibdinThe detail is immaculately recorded; the effect is heartbreaking - Louisa Young, Sunday Times[A] wholly satisfying book, quietly beautiful and inescapably ominous - David Buckley, ObserverBeautifully evoked … Cowan writes with a deceptive simplicity - Amanda Craig, The TimesA wonderful first novel - Christopher Hart, Daily TelegraphAbout The Author
Andrew Cowan
Andrew Cowan was born in Corby and is the author of two further novels, COMMON GROUND and CRUSTACEANS (Sceptre, 2000). He is a graduate of the University of East Anglia Creative Writing course, and lives in Norwich with the writer Lynne Bryan and their daughter.
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