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Five-year-old Lily lives in a hutch-like flat in a high-rise with her single mother, Donna, a student, and her grandfather, Jim, who breeds rabbits. Lily's mind is a stew. She worries about the corridors outside her home, the crazy-on-drugs men, ghosts, aliens and her Grandad's poorly ticker, and at times of great stress, she wants to be a rabbit. One Saturday she and Jim go to a rabbit show and Lily narrates the day's events, unconsciously weaving into its routine family stories and memories, as she tries to get to grips with her world. But the unpredictable behaviour of adults, their secrets and promises and rules, continually defeat her and as the day progresses it becomes apparent that even her Grandad, the person with whom she feels safest, might let her down.
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'A heart-warming and poignant story of a young girl coming to grips with the world around her.' -- OK magazine
'Bryan has a keen ear for the idiosyncracies of kid-speak, and this... makes her... creation so touchingly real.. and.. alive' -- Liz Jensen, The Independent
'Bryan reveals the tangled world of family relationships through Lily whose misunderstandings of adult... conversation raise many a smile.' -- Anthea Lawson, The Times
'[Bryan's] take on the life of a fractured family is an honest and effective one.' -- James Smart, Glasgow Herald
A sweet and funny novel...a sustained act of ventriloquism. -- The Times
All very fantastic-elastic. -- Independent on Sunday
Heart-warming and poignant -- OK magazine
About the Author:
'Bryan has a keen ear for the idiosyncracies of kid-speak, and this... makes her... creation so touchingly real.. and.. alive' -- Liz Jensen, The Independent
'Bryan reveals the tangled world of family relationships through Lily whose misunderstandings of adult... conversation raise many a smile.' -- Anthea Lawson, The Times
'[Bryan's] take on the life of a fractured family is an honest and effective one.' -- James Smart, Glasgow Herald
A sweet and funny novel...a sustained act of ventriloquism. -- The Times
All very fantastic-elastic. -- Independent on Sunday
Heart-warming and poignant -- OK magazine
Lynne Bryan is a graduate of the UEA Creative Writing course and the author of the story collection ENVY AT THE CHEESE HANDOUT (Faber 1995) and the novel GORGEOUS (Sceptre 1999). She lives in Norwich with the writer Andrew Cowan and their daughter Rose. LIKE RABBITS is her second novel.
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- PublisherSceptre
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0340739703
- ISBN 13 9780340739709
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages232
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