Birds on the Trees Re-Issue

Zusatztext 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 Informationen zum Autor Nina Bawden (1925-2012), CBE, was one of Britain's most distinguished and best-loved novelists, both for adults and children ( Peppermint Pig and Carrie's War being among her most famous books for young people). She has published over forty novels and an autobiography, I n My Own Time . She was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Circles of Deceit and her novel Family Money was filmed by Channel 4, starring Claire Boom and June Whitfield. In 2004 she received the S. T. Dupont Golden Pen Award for a Lifetime's Contribution to Literature. Klappentext The expulsion from school of their son shatters the comfortable middle-class security of Maggie and Charlie. Toby's diffidence! drug-taking and refusal to discuss! disturb them sufficiently to seek professional help. The author was shortlisted for the 1987 Booker Prize with "Circles of Deceit". Vorwort A powerful novel that raises fundamental questions about parents and their children, and offers tentative hope but no tidy solutions. Zusammenfassung A powerful novel that raises fundamental questions about parents and their children, and offers tentative hope but no tidy solutions.

Product details

• Authors: Nina Bawden, Nina Bawden Deceased
• Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 25.03.2010
• EAN: 9781853813733
• ISBN: 978-1-85381-373-3
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 199 mm x 14 mm
• Series: Virago Modern Classics; VMC; VMC; Virago Modern Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Psychological, Family life fiction, Fiction: general and literary