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Disputed Land

English

By (author): Tim Pears

Leonard and Rosemary Cannon summon their middle-aged offspring, along with partners and children, to the family home in the Welsh Marches for the Christmas holiday. As the gathered family settle in to their first Christmas together for some years, the grown siblings - Rodney, Jonny and Gwen - are surprised when they are invited to each put stickers on the furniture and items they wish to inherit from their parents.

Disputed Land is narrated by Leonard and Rosemary's thirteen-year-old grandson, Theo, who observes how from these innocent beginnings age-old fissures open up in the relationships of those around him. Looking back at this Christmas gathering from his own middle-age - a narrator at once nostalgic and naïve - Theo Cannon remembers his imperious grandmother Rosemary, alpha-male uncle Jonny, abominable twin cousins Xan and Baz; he recalls his love for his grandfather Leonard and the burgeoning feelings for his cousin Holly. And he asks himself the question: if a single family cannot solve the problem of what it bequeaths to future generations, then what chance does a whole society have of leaving the world intact?

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Product Details
  • Weight: 159g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Mar 2012
  • Publisher: Cornerstone
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780099538028

About Tim Pears

Born in 1956 Tim Pears grew up in Devon left school at sixteen and had countless menial jobs before studying at the National Film and Television School. He is the author of six previous novels including In the Place of Fallen Leaves which won the Hawthornden Prize and the Ruth Hadden Memorial Award In a Land of Plenty which was made into a ten part drama series for the BBC and most recently Landed. 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.

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