
In the Place of Fallen Leaves
by Tim Pears
Title:
In the Place of Fallen Leaves
Author:
Tim Pears
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
288 pages
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13:
9781408884102
EAN:
9781408884102
Publication Date:
12/01/2017
Classifications:
Modern and Contemporary (Post c 1945)
Weight (g):
356
Dimensions (mm):
199 x 127 x 19
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
WINNER OF THE HAWTHORNDEN PRIZE AND THE RUTH HADDEN MEMORIAL AWARDTim Pears'' prize-winning, critically acclaimed debut about a hot summer in a Devon village where time seems to stand stillThis overwhelmingly hot summer everything seems to be slowing down in the tiny Devon village where Alison lives, as if the sun is pouring hot glue over it. ‘This idn''t nothin'','' says Alison''s grandmother, recalling a drought when the earth swallowed lambs, and the summer after the war when people got electric shocks off each other. But Alison knows her grandmother''s memory is lying: this is far worse. She feels that time has stopped just as she wants to enter the real world of adulthood. In fact, in the cruel heat of summer, time is creeping towards her, and closing in around the valley.

















