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Pollard tells the story of Anne, a bag lady, seen in the town as one of the older ones from 'la la land'. Long ago, when she was fifteen, she ran away and made her life alone in the woods. It is her narrative that the reader hears, as Anne survives her first winter. She makes a shelter with her own hands, and decorates it; she forages for things to eat, experiences the pangs of love, watches the foxes and the deer and the changing seasons as the years go by. And in the wood there are other voices: the forest itself, the night, a man with a gun, boys splashing in pools ... and the sound of distant chain-saws, heralding footpaths under the trees and walkways in the canopy.
Laura Beatty has a gift for empathy and for challenging the reader. This is writing of the highest calibre.
Laura Beatty has a gift for empathy and for challenging the reader. This is writing of the highest calibre.
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'Beatty writes about endurance with compassion and empathy. She fantastically conveys the elemental quality of Anne's life'
-- Metro, Tina Jackson
'This is a moving novel, delicate yet powerful, whose unusual heroine charms absolutely'
-- The Economist
`fierce and wonderful book ... This is just the sort of generous, provocative novel the Booker judges should cherish' -- Observer, Olivia Lang
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-- Metro, Tina Jackson
'This is a moving novel, delicate yet powerful, whose unusual heroine charms absolutely'
-- The Economist
`fierce and wonderful book ... This is just the sort of generous, provocative novel the Booker judges should cherish' -- Observer, Olivia Lang
Pollard is a tour de force - an astonishing first novel which is tough, rough and beautiful.
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- PublisherChatto & Windus
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0701182091
- ISBN 13 9780701182090
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages320
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