- Country life, Fiction, Fiction, family life, general, England, fiction
Once it had been the great forest of Lythe - a vast and impenetrable thicket of green with a mystery in the very heart of the trees. And here, in the beginning, lived the Fairfaxes, grandly, at Fairfax Manor, visited once by the great Gloriana herself.
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Grave, contemplative, intimate and open-ended.
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- intimateepic
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Kate Atkinson
- First published
- 1997
- Pages
- 349
- Publisher
- Picador, Doubleday, Chivers Audio Books
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9780754094852
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Kate Atkinson was born in York and now lives in Edinburgh. Her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award. Besides novels, she has penned one play and a collection of short stories.
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