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Felix and Hannah are happily married, living somewhere in the Pennines, but there is a sadness in their lives - they've been trying to have a baby for five years with no luck. They've done the fertility tests - no explanation. Felix can cope - he likes his job, his great mate lives next door - but Hannah is haunted by her childlessness, not least because she herself was adopted. So they set off on two connected trails: to find a baby and to find Hannah's mother. It's a bittersweet journey which takes them through the contemporary landscape of British life in a way that only Simon Armitage can evoke with such perspicacity and humour.
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Felix and Hannah are trying for a baby, without much luck. This Felix can live with, but not Hannah. So together they travel from their Pennines home out into a wider Britain, searching for a baby as well as for Hannah's own mother, for Hannah was an adopted child. Two journeys in search of a family that move across a contemporary landscape that will be familiar to readers from the author's previous prose works. Simon Armitage is famous for his poetry, of course, but also for the travel book/memoir All Points North and one previous novel, Little Green Man (currently being filmed by the BBC). It is quite possible that in a few years time he will be better known, at least to a wider audience, as a novelist who started out writing poetry.
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Simon Armitage was born in west Yorkshire in 1963. Regarded as one of the leading poets of his generation, he is also a playwright, travel writer, song lyricist and now established novelist. After university he worked as a probation officer in Manchester; he also presented Radio 4's poetry series Stanza for five years. His first prose book All Points North (1998) and acclaimed first novel Little Green Man (2001) are both published by Penguin. He lives near Huddersfield.
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- PublisherViking
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 067091343X
- ISBN 13 9780670913435
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