The Birds On The Trees

by Nina Bawden

Book Overview

SHORTLISTED FOR THE LOST MAN BOOKER PRIZE

'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

'A story about a middle-class family in crisis, which is so good, and so true' GUARDIAN

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1853813737
• ISBN13: 9781853813733
• Release Date: September 1991
• Publisher: Little Brown and Co. (UK)
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.9" x 7.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

A touching story

I read this book many years ago when I was 18. As a teen much like Toby, it spoke straight to my heart and touched me for a long time. The book description above does not do justice to this lyrical, sweet story.