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Imprint: Vintage Digital
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Published: 13/11/2014
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ISBN: 9781473513907
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Length: 267 Minutes
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RRP: £9.00
In the relentless summer heat, four abruptly orphaned children retreat into a shadowy, isolated world, and find their own strange and unsettling ways of fending for themselves...
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Imprint: Vintage Digital
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Published: 13/11/2014
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ISBN: 9781473513907
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Length: 267 Minutes
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RRP: £9.00
Reviews
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"A macabre but unforgettable tale"
Guardian
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"Darkly impressive"
The Times
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"Marvellously creates the atmosphere of youngsters given that instant adulthood they all crave, where the ordinary takes on a mysterious glow and the extraordinary seems rather commonplace. It is difficult to fault the writing or the construction of this eerie fable"
Sunday Times
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"An extremely assured, technically adept and compelling piece of work"
Observer
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"A shocking book, morbid, full of repellant imagery - and irresistibly readable...The effect achieved by McEwan's quiet, precise and sensuous touch is that of magic realism - a transfiguration of the ordinary that has far stronger retinal and visceral impact than the flabby surrealism of so many experimental novels"
New York Review of Books
