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Human Croquet

by Kate Atkinson - £8.99  Transworld Publishers Ltd (1998)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9780552996198 | ISBN 10: 055299619x

The brilliant and profound second novel from the three-times Costa prizewinner and number one bestseller Kate Atkinson.
 
'Vivid, richly imaginative, hilarious and frightening by turns' Observer
 
Once it had been the great forest of Lythe. And here, in the beginning, lived the Fairfaxes, grandly, at Fairfax Manor.
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, Arpege and sex, whose disappearance is part of the mystery that still remains at the heart of the forest.

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