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Written on Nov 10, 2019
It was interesting enough I suppose. But I think I need a few more days to wrap my mind around everything that went down in the book.
There's a village sixty miles outside London. It's no different from many other villages in England: one pub, one church, red-brick cottages, council cottages and a few bigger houses dotted about. Voices rise up, as they might do anywhere, speaking of loving and needing and working and dying and walking the dogs.
This village belongs to the people who live in it and to the people who lived in it hundreds of years ago. It belongs to England's mysterious past and its confounding present. But it also belongs to Dead Papa Toothwort, a figure schoolchildren used to draw green and leafy, choked by tendrils growing out of his mouth.
Dead Papa Toothwort is awake. He is listening to this twenty-first-century village, to his English symphony. He is listening, intently, for a mischievous, enchanting boy whose parents have recently made the village their home. Lanny.
- ISBN10 1555978401
- ISBN13 9781555978402
- Publish Date 14 May 2019 (first published 5 March 2019)
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint Graywolf Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 160
- Language English
Reviews
It was interesting enough I suppose. But I think I need a few more days to wrap my mind around everything that went down in the book.