The Birds On The Trees by Nina Bawden
A powerful novel that raises fundamental questions about parents and their children, and offers tentative hope but no tidy solutions.
Nina Bawden gets inside the skins of all her people and shows them as paradoxical, crotchety, adulterous, ambitious and completely human. . A beautifully sustained impression of the impossibility of family life * Independent *
Miss Bawden, in her wise attribution of guilt and dispersion of sympathy, accommodates here, adjusts there, and makes a tentative coexistence possible, one that permits a little hope. And, as always, she's an accomplished pleasure to read * Kirkus Reviews *
A story about a middle-class family in crisis, which is so good, and so true, it reminds one why the words 'Hampstead novel' used not to be a term of abuse * Guardian *
Nina Bawden gets inside the skins of all her people and shows them as paradoxical, crotchety, adulterous, ambitious and completely human ... A beautifully sustained impression of the impossibility of family life * The INDEPENDENT *
Miss Bawden, in her wise attribution of guilt and dispersion of sympathy, accommodates here, adjusts there, and makes a tentative coexistence possible, one that permits a little hope. And, as always, she's an accomplished pleasure to read * Kirkus Reviews *
A story about a middle-class family in crisis, which is so good, and so true, it reminds one why the words 'Hampstead novel' used not to be a term of abuse * Guardian *
Nina Bawden gets inside the skins of all her people and shows them as paradoxical, crotchety, adulterous, ambitious and completely human ... A beautifully sustained impression of the impossibility of family life * The INDEPENDENT *
Nina Bawden (1925-2012), CBE, was one of Britain's most distinguished and best-loved novelists, both for adults and children (Peppermint Pig and Carrie's War being among her most famous books for young people). She has published over forty novels and an autobiography, In My Own Time. She was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Circles of Deceit and her novel Family Money was filmed by Channel 4, starring Claire Boom and June Whitfield. In 2004 she received the S. T. Dupont Golden Pen Award for a Lifetime's Contribution to Literature.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781853813733 |
| ISBN 10 | 1853813737 |
| Title | The Birds On The Trees |
| Author | Nina Bawden |
| Series | Virago Modern Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2010-03-25 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Man Booker Prize 2010 (UK) |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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