by Kate Atkinson · Black Swan · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780552996198
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«Human Croquet» is Kate Atkinson's literary fiction novel, published by Black Swan in paperback (448 pages, in English).
The novel follows Isobel Fairfax, a sixteen-year-old girl living in Lythe, an English estate built where a forest once stood. She awaits the return of her missing mother while delving into the history of her family and neighbourhood, with shifts in time and echoes of the Elizabethan era.
It is Kate Atkinson's second novel and blends literary fiction, magical realism and a coming-of-age story.
For those seeking a narrative that combines family mystery, magical realism and time travel.
Kate Atkinson is an English writer of novels, plays and short stories. She has written historical novels, detective novels and family novels, incorporating postmodern and magical realist elements into the plots. Her debut, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, won the Whitbread Book Award, the precursor to the Costa Book Award, in 1995. The novels Life After Life and A God in Ruins won the Costa Book Award for novel in 2013 and 2015. She is also known for the Jackson Brodie series of detective novels, which has been adapted into the BBC One series, Case Histories.
