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Walter Brown went alone to the woodland pond on a July afternoon in 1934. He saw his girl swimming there. She wasn t his girl then, but he knew she would be. He was nineteen when he knew. He watched her floating and saw how white her skin was in the green water, her belly, her breasts, her pond-tangled hair. A naked girl. Then she turned over like an otter and dived down. She did not come up again. wo boys ean Matthews stands at the bottom of George s Hill, more or less the very centre of the housing estate, with his hands on his hips. School is finished for the summer and last night, 20 July 1969, two men landed on the moon. There is a notice announcing it in the classroom. Jhe spaesmen hav landid in Jhe see ov trankwility. Funetic words, as if it were a huge laugh; but phonetics is not supposed to be funny. It is important and clever. It is a nationwide experiment, government-sanctioned. Sean and his friends are the guinea pigs. Wur. growing up in the same village thirty-five years apart. hen Sean Matthews unknowingly witnesses an event he cannot bear to remember, his life is changed forever. ailed by Salman Rushdie on the publication of her first novel as a real discProduct Identifiers
PublisherVintage Publishing
ISBN-139780224080415
eBay Product ID (ePID)87320620
Product Key Features
Book TitleCryers Hill
AuthorKitty Aldridge
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
TopicBooks
Publication Year2007
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorKitty Aldridge
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom