Human Croquet
By Kate Atkinson
(Picador, Paperback, 9780312186883, 352pp.)
Publication Date: November 12, 1999
Other Editions of This Title: Paperback
Categories: Sagas
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A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year
Part fairy tale, part mystery, part coming-of-age novel, this novel 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, Human Croquet is rich with the disappointments and possibilities every family shares.
Kate Atkinson is the author of a short-story collection, Not the End of the World, and five critically acclaimed novels including Case Histories and One Good Turn. She lives in Edinburgh, England.
"A literary tour de force."--San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle
"Human Croquet offers further proof that Kate Atkinson is off and running in quite a fantastic direction of her own devising."--Katharine Weber, The New York Times Book Review
"[Kate Atkinson] writes such fluid, sparkling prose that an ingenious plot almost seems too much to ask, but we get it anyway."--Salon.com
"A novel which will dazzle readers for years to come."--Hilary Mantel, London Review of Books
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