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The Hollow Land
- Author
- Jane Gardam
- Narrator
- Mike Rogers
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Publish Date
- 6 August 2020
- Run Time
- 4 hours 31 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
The barren, beautiful Cumbrian fells provide the bewitching setting for the adventures of Bill and Harry, two children who find wonder at every turn as they experience the Hollow Land. Everyday challenges give a daring edge to this rural work and play. There are mysteries to explore and uncover , like the case of the Egg Witch, and everyone is curious about the Household Name, a visitor from London, moving into the jewel of the territory, Light Farm.
Gardam is at her best with this novel, which won the Whitbread award in 1981.
Critics Review
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Jane Gardam has a spectacular gift for detail of the local and period kind, and for details which made characters so subtly unpredictable that they ring true
Times Literary Supplement
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Gardam's prose is so economical that no moment she describes is either gratuitous or wasted
New Yorker
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Details
- Author
- Jane Gardam
- Narrator
- Mike Rogers
- Duration
- 4 hours 31 minutes
- Release Date
- 6 August 2020
- ISBN
- 9780349144238
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Genre
- Classic fiction: literary and general, Adventure / action fiction, Family life fiction / Stories about family, Narrative theme: coming of age
Synopsis
'Her territory isn't young or old; it's the heart-and brain-matter of people, their desires and worries and fantasies and intricate interactions. All of this is set capably against a particular landscape, and the result tends to be vivid and real. Beautiful, like Willa Cather' Meg Wolitzer, New York TimesThe barren, beautiful Cumbrian fells provide the bewitching setting for the adventures of Bill and Harry, two children who find wonder at every turn as they experience the Hollow Land. Everyday challenges give a daring edge to this rural work and play. There are mysteries to explore and uncover , like the case of the Egg Witch, and everyone is curious about the Household Name, a visitor from London, moving into the jewel of the territory, Light Farm.Gardam is at her best with this novel, which won the Whitbread award in 1981.
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