Human Croquet

Kate Atkinson

Original title: Human croquet

first published 1997 Chivers Audio Books, 2004 audiobook

Once it had been the great forest of Lythe - a vast and impenetrable thicket of green with a mystery in the very heart of the trees. And here, in the beginning, lived the Fairfaxes, grandly, at Fairfax Manor, visited once by the great Gloriana herself.  But over the centuries the forest has been destroyed, replaced by Streets of Trees. The Fairfaxes have dwindled too; now they live in 'Arden' at the end of Hawthorne...

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Human Croquet audiobook · 2004 · Chivers Audio Books · 9780754094852
Human croquet edition · 1997 · Picador USA · 349 pages
Human Croquet paperback · 1997 · Picador · 352 pages · 9780312186883

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