The Orchard on Fire
Author(s): Shena Mackay
When her parents abandon their seedy Streatham pub for a tearoom in Kent, life for April changes dramatically. She is befriended by the wonderfully dangerous Ruby and by the creepy but immaculately dressed Mr Greenridge, who likes to follow her around the village.
General Information
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- : MINERVA
- : MINERVA
- : 0.165
- : 01 June 0000
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 April 2005
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Shena Mackay
- : Paperback
- : New edition
- : English
- : 214
More About The Product
Shortlisted for Booker Prize for Fiction 1996.
'A harvest festival of sensuous detail, intimate, rich... compulsively readable' -- "Daily Telegraph" 'So touched with magic, so achingly sad and funny that my breath was taken away... Wonderful' -- "The Times" 'Mackay moved this reader to ears, not from grief, but from joy. Now there's a skill' -- Fay Weldon," Mail on Sunday"
