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Human Croquet
A General Fiction Novel by Kate Atkinson
Subgenres:
- Coming-of-Age,
- Family Mystery,
- 1960s British Suburbia
This book is for you if you're into...
- Suburban mysteries with surreal time slips and Shakespearean echoes
- Family secrets unfolding alongside missing mothers and war-hero dads
- Coming-of-age stories set in 1960s England with a magical twist
From the award-winning author of Life After Life comes Kate Atkinson's Human Croquet, part fairy tale, part mystery, part coming-of-age novel.
Human Croquet tells the story of Isobel Fairfax, a girl growing up in Lythe, a typical 1960s British suburb.
But Lythe was once the heart of an Elizabethan feudal estate and home to a young English tutor named William Shakespeare, and as Isobel investigates the strange history of her family, her neighbors, and her village, she occasionally gets caught in Shakespearean time warps.
Meanwhile, she gets closer to the shocking truths about her missing mother, her war-hero father, and the hidden lives of her close friends and classmates.
A stunning feat of imagination and storytelling, Kate Atkinson's Human Croquet is rich with the disappointments and possibilities every family shares.
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