WINNER OF THE HAWTHORNDEN PRIZE AND THE RUTH HADDEN MEMORIAL AWARD Tim Pears' prize-winning, critically acclaimed debut about a hot summer in a Devon village where time seems to stand still This overwhelmingly hot summer everything seems to be slowing down in the tiny Devon village where Alison lives, as if the sun is pouring hot glue over it. This idn't nothin',' says Alison's grandmother, recalling a drought when the earth swallowed lambs, and the summer after the war when people got electric shocks off each other. But Alison knows her grandmother's memory is lying: this is far worse. She feels that time has stopped just as she wants to enter the real world of adulthood. In fact, in the cruel heat of summer, time is creeping towards her, and closing in around the valley.
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Weight: 232g
Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
Publication Date: 12 Jan 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781408884102
About Tim Pears
Tim Pears is the author of eight novels: In the Light of Morning In the Place of Fallen Leaves (winner of the Hawthornden Prize and the Ruth Hadden Memorial Award) Wake Up Blenheim Orchard In a Land of Plenty(made into a ten-part BBC series) A Revolution of the Sun Landed (shortlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2012 and the 2011 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize winner of the MJA Open Book Awards 2011) and Disputed Land. He has been Writer in Residence at Cheltenham Festival of Literature and Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Oxford Brookes University and has taught creative writing at Ruskin College and elsewhere. He lives in Oxford with his wife and children. timpears.com
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