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Set in the Cumbrian fells - the "hollow land" - this collection of stories tells of two families: one local and one from London. Read about the exploits of friends Barry and Harry, the sweep Kendal, the Egg witch, Granny Crack, the Household Word, and many other characters.
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"Jane Gardam has a spectacular gift for detail of the local and period kind, and for details which made
characters so subtly unpredictable that they ring true." - "Times Literary Supplement "
"Gardam's prose is so economical that no moment she describes is either gratuitous or wasted." -"The New Yorker"
"Gardam is an exquisite storyteller, picking up threads, laying them down, returning to them and giving them new meaning." -"The Seattle Times"
"Gardam will bring immense pleasure to readers who treasure fiction that is intelligent, witty, sophisticated." -"The Washington Post"
Featured as one of the "New York Times Book Review"'s "100 Notable Books of 2015"
Jane Gardam has a spectacular gift for detail of the local and period kind, and for details which made
characters so subtly unpredictable that they ring true. "Times Literary Supplement "
Gardam s prose is so economical that no moment she describes is either gratuitous or wasted. "The New Yorker"
Gardam is an exquisite storyteller, picking up threads, laying them down, returning to them and giving them new meaning. "The Seattle Times"
Gardam will bring immense pleasure to readers who treasure fiction that is intelligent, witty, sophisticated. "The Washington Post""
Featured as one of the New York Times Book Review's "100 Notable Books of 2015" "Jane Gardam has a spectacular gift for detail of the local and period kind, and for details which made
characters so subtly unpredictable that they ring true." - Times Literary Supplement "Gardam's prose is so economical that no moment she describes is either gratuitous or wasted." -The New Yorker "Gardam is an exquisite storyteller, picking up threads, laying them down, returning to them and giving them new meaning." -The Seattle Times "Gardam will bring immense pleasure to readers who treasure fiction that is intelligent, witty, sophisticated." -The Washington Post
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characters so subtly unpredictable that they ring true." - "Times Literary Supplement "
"Gardam's prose is so economical that no moment she describes is either gratuitous or wasted." -"The New Yorker"
"Gardam is an exquisite storyteller, picking up threads, laying them down, returning to them and giving them new meaning." -"The Seattle Times"
"Gardam will bring immense pleasure to readers who treasure fiction that is intelligent, witty, sophisticated." -"The Washington Post"
Featured as one of the "New York Times Book Review"'s "100 Notable Books of 2015"
Jane Gardam has a spectacular gift for detail of the local and period kind, and for details which made
characters so subtly unpredictable that they ring true. "Times Literary Supplement "
Gardam s prose is so economical that no moment she describes is either gratuitous or wasted. "The New Yorker"
Gardam is an exquisite storyteller, picking up threads, laying them down, returning to them and giving them new meaning. "The Seattle Times"
Gardam will bring immense pleasure to readers who treasure fiction that is intelligent, witty, sophisticated. "The Washington Post""
Featured as one of the New York Times Book Review's "100 Notable Books of 2015" "Jane Gardam has a spectacular gift for detail of the local and period kind, and for details which made
characters so subtly unpredictable that they ring true." - Times Literary Supplement "Gardam's prose is so economical that no moment she describes is either gratuitous or wasted." -The New Yorker "Gardam is an exquisite storyteller, picking up threads, laying them down, returning to them and giving them new meaning." -The Seattle Times "Gardam will bring immense pleasure to readers who treasure fiction that is intelligent, witty, sophisticated." -The Washington Post
Jane Gardam has twice won the Whitbread Award - for her children's book The Hollow Land and, in 1991, for her adult novel The Queen of the Tambourine. In addition, God on the Rocks was runner-up for the Booker Prize and Bridget and William (now available as one of two stories in the Walker Double Black Woolly Pony, White Chalk Horse) was Commended for the Carnegie Medal. Her other titles include Tufty Bear and The Kit Stories. She is married with three grown-up children and lives in an old house in Kent, which has the ruins of a monastery, a chapel and a ghost in the garden.
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- PublisherWalker Books Ltd
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0744582652
- ISBN 13 9780744582659
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- Number of pages160
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