Human Croquet

The brilliant and profound second novel from the three-times Costa prizewinner and number one bestseller Kate Atkinson.

''Vivid, richly imaginative, hilarious and frightening by turns'' Observer

Once it had been the great forest of Lythe. And here, in the beginning, lived the Fairfaxes, grandly, at Fairfax Manor.

But over the centuries the forest had been destroyed, replaced by Streets of Trees. The ...