The Cement Garden
'A superb achievement: his prose has instant, lucid beauty and his narrative voice has a perfect poise and certainty. His account of deprivation and survival is marvellously sure, and the imaginative alignment of his story is exactly right' - Tom Paulin
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The Cement Garden Paperback ISBN: 9780099755111 Published: 04/07/1997 Imprint: Vintage Extent: 144 pages Subject: Contemporary Fiction $19.95 RRP
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The Cement Garden EBook ISBN: 9781409090052 Published: 01/07/2010 Imprint: Vintage Digital Series: VINBLUE Extent: 144 pages Subject: Contemporary Fiction $14.95 RRP Buy Now
Synopsis
In the relentless summer heat, four abruptly orphaned children retreat into a shadowy, isolated world, and find their own strange and unsettling ways of fending for themselves...
Editorial Reviews
"Darkly impressive" - The Times
"Marvellously creates the atmosphere of youngsters given that instant adulthood they all crave, where the ordinary takes on a mysterious glow and the extraordinary seems rather commonplace. It is difficult to fault the writing or the construction of this eerie fable" - Sunday Times
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