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The Orchard on Fire: Virago Modern Classics

Autor Shena MacKay
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 apr 2016
'What made the orchard miraculous was an abandoned railway carriage, set down as if by magic, its wheels gone, anchored by long grass and nettles. Ruby and I stared at it and each other . . . dark-windowed, out of place in a thicket of thorns, it was the perfect hide-out, house, the camp of our dreams'

When April's parents move from London to rural Kent she makes her first best friend. With flame-haired, fearless Ruby, April shares secrets, dares and laughter. But Ruby has secrets of her own -bruises that she hides.

Also seeking April's friendship is old Mr Greenidge, immaculate in his linen suit, with eyes like blue glass. He follows her around the village with his beguiling daschund, and wants to learn everything about her.

'Shena Mackay has brought off something quite rare ... the author has set out a rite of passage which will leave few readers unaffected' Anita Brookner, Spectator
'So touched with magic, so achingly sad and funny that my breath was taken away . . . wonderful' Elizabeth Buchan, The Times
'An eloquent, beautifully written, unpretentious novel about a 1950s childhood' Fay Weldon
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ISBN-13: 9780349007212
ISBN-10: 0349007217
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 128 x 198 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Little Brown Book Group
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Notă biografică

Shena Mackay was born in Edinburgh in 1944. Her writing career began when she won a prize for a poem written when she was fourteen. Two novellas, Dust Falls on Eugene Schlumberger and Toddler on the Run were published before she was twenty. Redhill Rococo won the 1987 Fawcett Prize, Dunedin won a 1994 Scottish Arts Council Book Award, The Orchard on Fire was shortlisted for the 1996 Booker Prize and, in 2003, Heligoland was shortlisted for both the Orange Prize and Whitbread Novel Award. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in Southampton.

Descriere

Many regard this as Mackay's masterpiece. A touching, funny novel about childhood in the 1950s: friendship, village life and lost innocence.

Recenzii

"Enthralling from the first page to the last...celebrates love and friendship and the resilinece of children."-The Boston Globe
"A wonderous novel that will birth emotions anew, age them with experience and tinge them with an aching melancholy." -The Washington Post