{"product_id":"9780552996198","title":"Human Croquet","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Atkinson, Kate \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 07\/03\/1998,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 448 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780552996198,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe brilliant and profound second novel from the three-times Costa prizewinner and number one bestseller Kate Atkinson.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Vivid, richly imaginative, hilarious and frightening by turns' ObserverOnce it had been the great forest of Lythe. And here, in the beginning, lived the Fairfaxes, grandly, at Fairfax Manor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut over the centuries the forest had been destroyed, replaced by Streets of Trees. The Fairfaxes have dwindled too; now they live in 'Arden' at the end of Hawthorne Close and are hardly a family at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Isobel Fairfax, who drops into pockets of time and out again, knows about the past. She is sixteen and waiting for the return of her mother - the thin, dangerous Eliza with her scent of nicotine, Arpège and sex, whose disappearance is part of the mystery that still remains at the heart of the forest.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43697502093356,"sku":"9780552996198","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780552996198.jpg?v=1722596232","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780552996198","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}