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It's 1961 and something has gone badly wrong at 17 Esper Road. Charles is in search of a better world but his wife Emma hankers after parties in Spain and the latest fashions. All they have in common is their disappointing tomboy daughter, Linka, who sits at the foot of the garden, making weapons from dead branches and longing for beautiful and violent escape...
Britain is poised for the upheavals of the 1960s. The future has a bright surface but darker forces pulse below. When Linka and her mother both fall in love with a Polish refugee, their fragile family life is shattered. Linka knows she must fight to protect her own dreams. Girl in a Garden is a story of secret wars as only a child can detect them.
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'A convincingly dark meditation on childhood.' -- Hephzibah Anderson, Observer
'A memorable first novel...Chamerlain's prose is both spare and evocative.' -- Stephen King, TLS
'Captures perfectly the wild imagination of a neglected tomboy growing up in the 1960s' -- Helen Brown, Daily Telegraph
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'A memorable first novel...Chamerlain's prose is both spare and evocative.' -- Stephen King, TLS
'Captures perfectly the wild imagination of a neglected tomboy growing up in the 1960s' -- Helen Brown, Daily Telegraph
Lesley Chamberlain is a writer and reviewer distinguished for her wide-ranging work from travel (In the Communist Mirror) to philosophy (Nietzsche in Turin). In 1998 she published a collection of Russian stories, In a Place Like That, described as 'a brilliant book...a touching and humorous requiem to a lost world' (TLS). She is working on Shipped, a forthcoming non-fiction title for Atlantic Books. Girl in a Garden is her first novel.
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- PublisherAtlantic Books
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 1843541025
- ISBN 13 9781843541028
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages256
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