The Orchard on Fire
The Orchard on Fire
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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.
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The Orchard on Fire by Shena Mackay
When Percy and Betty Harlency abandon their seedy Streatham pub, for the Copper Kettle Tearoom in Kent, life for their daughter April changes dramatically. She is befriended by the wonderfully dangerous Ruby, whose red hair and brutal home life emphasise her love of fire, and by the immaculately dressed Mr Greenridge who likes to follow her around the village. Mingling the innocent with the sinister and laced with the tragic and the bizarre, this is a rare evocation of a 1950s childhood.
A harvest festival of sensuous detail, intimate, rich.. Compulsively readable Daily Telegraph Mackay moved this reader to tears, not from grief, but from joy. Now there's a skill -- Fay Weldon Mail on Sunday An extremely beautiful and funny novel... The Orchard on Fire is probably Mackay's most perfect book, produced with a technical adroitness and shapeliness which one can only envy -- Philip Hensher Guardian Shena Mackay is a writer in prime: at the height of her powers... Her prose is flawlessly seductive and comic, confidently witty and sensual -- Julie Myerson Independent on Sunday Wholly delightful... Shena Mackay is an assured artist -- A. N. Wilson Evening Standard
Shena Mackay was born in Edinburgh. She is the author of four previous collections of stories - Babies in Rhinestones, Dreams of Dead Women's Handbags, The Laughing Academy and The World's Smallest Unicorn. Her novels include Dunedin, The Orchard on Fire (which was shortlisted for the 1996 Booker Prize), The Artist's Widow and Heligoland (which was shortlisted for the 2003 Orange Prize).
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780749394066 |
| ISBN 10 | 0749394064 |
| Title | The Orchard on Fire |
| Author | Shena Mackay |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 1997-06-23 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Booker Prize for Fiction 1996 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |