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The Orchard on Fire
  

The Orchard on Fire (Hardcover)

by Shena Mackay (Author)
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Product details

  • Hardcover: 320 pages
  • Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd (10 Jun 1996)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0434000671
  • ISBN-13: 978-0434000678
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,058,275 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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  • Other Editions: Hardcover  |  Paperback (New edition) |  Audio Cassette (Audiobook) |  All Editions


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Amazon.co.uk Review
This intimate, intensely seen novel was short-listed for the 1996 Booker Prize. Shena Mackay's six previous novels have won her critical admiration and a popular audience in England, but her work has not received due recognition in the United States yet. The Orchard on Fire is a concise, domestic novel set in the village of Stonebridge, where the parents of April Harlency have come in 1953 to run the local teashop. April's private reveries and her entanglement with the grim family life of her best friend, Ruby Richards, fill up a vivid and dramatic year in the wonderfully distinctive life of Stonebridge. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Synopsis
The Harlencys abandon their Streatham gin-palace for "The Copper Kettle Tearoom" in Stoneford, but their dreams evaporate as undesirable elements of the community provide their only trade. Life for daughter April, however, is more interesting when she befriends the red-headed and firey Ruby.