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The Birds On The Trees (Virago Modern Classics) ebok
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE LOST MAN BOOKER PRIZE
'Nina Bawden gets inside the skins of all her people and shows them as paradoxical, crotchety, adulterous, ambitious and completely human . . . A beautifully sustained impression of the impossibility of family life' INDEPENDENT
'A story about a middle-class family in crisis, which is so good, and so true' GUARDIAN
The expulsion from school of their eldest son shatters the middle-class security of Maggie, a writer, and Charlie, a journalist. Since chi…
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Forlag
Virago
Utgitt
10 desember 2016
Sjanger
Romaner, Skjønnlitteratur
Serie
Virago Modern Classics
Språk
English
Format
epub
DRM-beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780748127580
SHORTLISTED FOR THE LOST MAN BOOKER PRIZE
'Nina Bawden gets inside the skins of all her people and shows them as paradoxical, crotchety, adulterous, ambitious and completely human . . . A beautifully sustained impression of the impossibility of family life' INDEPENDENT
'A story about a middle-class family in crisis, which is so good, and so true' GUARDIAN
The expulsion from school of their eldest son shatters the middle-class security of Maggie, a writer, and Charlie, a journalist. Since childhood, Toby has been diffident and self-absorbed, but the threat of drug-taking and his refusal - or inability - to discuss his evident unhappiness, disturbs them sufficiently to seek professional help. Veering between private agony and public cheerfulness, Maggie and Charlie struggle to support their son and cope with the reactions- and advice- of friends and relatives.
Noted for the acuity with which she reaches into the heart of relationships, Nina Bawden here excels in revealing the painful, intimate truths of a family in crisis. Toby's situation is explored with great tenderness, while Maggie's grief and self-recrimination are rigorously, if compassionately, observed.