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The Great Indoors
Brown Book Group Little
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Description for The Great Indoors
paperback. Good clean copy
It's not that Martha Bone doesn't like children. It's more that they don't fit into her world: her shop, with its succession of beautiful distressed antiques; her flat, with its creamy sofa, its unwashable linen scatter-cushions, its aura of oatmeal and sand. Her sisters don't understand how she can live her life as she does, shut away like that, so emotionally enclosed, but Martha smoothes the Durham quilt on her Victorian cast-iron bed and thinks everything looks just fine. More than fine. Perfect. But then things start happening. A death. A cat. A girl with chocolately fingers. A box of ... Read more
It's not that Martha Bone doesn't like children. It's more that they don't fit into her world: her shop, with its succession of beautiful distressed antiques; her flat, with its creamy sofa, its unwashable linen scatter-cushions, its aura of oatmeal and sand. Her sisters don't understand how she can live her life as she does, shut away like that, so emotionally enclosed, but Martha smoothes the Durham quilt on her Victorian cast-iron bed and thinks everything looks just fine. More than fine. Perfect. But then things start happening. A death. A cat. A girl with chocolately fingers. A box of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780751533507
SKU
KSG0009251
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Brown Book Group Little
Sabine Durrant is best known for the Sabine Durrant Interview in The Guardian. She was The Guardian's Deputy Features Editor and prior to that was Deputy Literary Editor at The Sunday Times. She lives in London.
Reviews for The Great Indoors
'fresh, thoughtful and beautifully observed' Lizy Buchan, SUNDAY TIMES 'this delightfully funny and tender novel is one that nobody with taste should miss' TIMES 'wry, funny and beautifully observed' IRISH EXAMINER 'a real talent for observing family life' SUNDAY MIRROR 'humorous and sensitive... a warm intelligent read' TIME OUT