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THE BIRDS ON THE TREES
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| By: |
Nina Bawden |
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Paperback |
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£9.99 |
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£8.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1853813737 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781853813733 |
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| Publisher: |
LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP |
| Pub. date: |
26 September, 1991 |
| Series: |
Virago Modern Classics |
| Pages: |
208 |
| Description: |
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". |
| Synopsis: |
The expulsion from school of their eldest son shatters the middle-class secutiry of Maggie, a writer, and Charlie, a journalist. Since childhood, Toby has been diffident and self-absorbed, but the threat of drug taking and his refusal (or inability) to discuss his evident unhappiness, disturbs them sufficiently to seek professional help. Veering between private agony and public cheerfulness, Maggie and Charlie struggle to support their son and cope with the reactions- and advice- of friends and relatives. Noted for the acuity with which she reaches into the heart of relationships, Nina Bawden here excels in revealing the painful, intimate truths of a family in crisis. Toby's situation is explored with great tenderness, while Maggie's grief and self-recrimination are rigorously, if compassionately, observed. It is a novel that raises fundamental questions about parents and their children, and offers tentative hope but no tidy solutions. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Virago Press Ltd |
| Prizes: |
Short-listed for Man Booker Prize 2010 (UK) |
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Non-returnable |
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Book Level : 6.2
Interest Level : Upper Yrs
Points : 11
Quiz number : 202758
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