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Shortlisted for the Whitbread Award, August is the life of a family through fifteen summer trips to Wales.
Little did Aldous Jones know when he careened over his bicycle handlebars back in 1955, landing next to farmer Evans’s field, that it would turn into the idyllic start to a series of camping holidays in that same field. With Gerard Woodward’s deadpan wit and poignant evocation, August encapsulates the portrait of the Joneses and their growing family. Strangely enough, the rural site seems to change in conjunction with their city life, creating a parallel universe instead of a getaway. The Jones family also is featured in I’ll Go to Bed at Noon and A Curious Earth."synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
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An unforgettable first novel revels in nostalgia for post-war England.
Aldous Jones flew over his bicycle handlebars in 1955, landing next to Farmer Evan?s field. Since that day, he?s taken his family camping at the Evan?s Welsh farm each summer. As the years pass the family idyll starts to disintegrate, and summers at the farm are drenched in memory. An evocative, funny English novel, with dark, mournful undercurrents.
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Aldous Jones flew over his bicycle handlebars in 1955, landing next to Farmer Evan?s field. Since that day, he?s taken his family camping at the Evan?s Welsh farm each summer. As the years pass the family idyll starts to disintegrate, and summers at the farm are drenched in memory. An evocative, funny English novel, with dark, mournful undercurrents.
Gerard Woodward is the author of the Booker Prize finalist I’ll Go to Bed at Noon and A Curious Earth. He was born in London in 1961, and published several prize-winning collections of poetry before turning to fiction. He is a professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University and lives in Bath, England.
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