- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (11 Oct 1984)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140069437
- ISBN-13: 978-0140069433
- Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 11 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,706,877 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Anita Brookner
'Extraordinarily skilful'
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From the author of CLOSE RELATIONS, SMILE and SEESAW, the story of a girl whose family keeps pigs outside their bungalow near Heathrow. She is teased at school, and as she grows up she realises that she has lost her innocence and been robbed of her childhood in a way that none of her friends could possibly have imagined.
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Harrowing & brilliant,
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This book is a compelling read, contrasting starkly described horrors with the banality of the day to day survival of their aftermath. It haunted me for a long time after I'd read it.
I'd say this & Final Demand are her best books.
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