Birds On The Trees

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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