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In the arid summer heat, four children – Jack, Julie, Sue and Tom – find themselves abruptly orphaned. All the routines of childhood are cast aside as the children adapt to a now parentless world. Alone in the house together, the children’s lives twist into something unrecognisable as the outside begins to bear down on them.
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"An unforgettable tale" (John Boyne Guardian)
"Hypnotic" (John Updike New Yorker)
"An extremely assured, technically adept and compelling piece of work" (Observer)
"Marvellously creates the atmosphere of youngsters given that instant adulthood they all crave, where the ordinary takes on a mysterious glow" (Sunday Times)
"A shocking book...irresistibly readable" (New York Review of Books)
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"Hypnotic" (John Updike New Yorker)
"An extremely assured, technically adept and compelling piece of work" (Observer)
"Marvellously creates the atmosphere of youngsters given that instant adulthood they all crave, where the ordinary takes on a mysterious glow" (Sunday Times)
"A shocking book...irresistibly readable" (New York Review of Books)
'A superb achievement: his prose has instant, lucid beauty and his narrative voice has a perfect poise and certainty. His account of deprivation and survival is marvellously sure, and the imaginative alignment of his story is exactly right' - Tom Paulin
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0099755114
- ISBN 13 9780099755111
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages160
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