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Katharine Weber
Wonderfully eloquent and
forceful, Kate Atkinson goes at the same pace in her second novel
as she did in her first Behind The Scenes At The Museum...Welcome
back, wild north-easter...brilliant and engrossing
- Penelope Fitzgerald, Evening Standard
No matter what
category her second novel, Human Croquet, is ultimately slotted into
by the literary establishment--magical post-modern metafiction? post-magical
realism? post-modern magicalism?--it offers further proof that she
is off and running in a quite fantastic direction of her own devising.
- Katharine Weber, The New York Times Book Review
A brilliant new novel from the author of Behind the Scenes at
the Museum. Described as “a writer to rival the best,” award-winning
author Kate Atkinson proves herself a unique new voice in British
fiction with her second novel, Human Croquet. Audaciously blending
history, comedy and tragedy, the novel features the strange and eccentric
Fairfax family and the shadowy presence of the mother, Eliza, who
disappeared many years before. For readers of her first novel, this
will seem familiar territory: the highly idiosyncratic, secret-soaked,
comic and terrible disaster zone of the family.
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