by Shena Mackay · Minerva · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780749394066
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«The Orchard on Fire» is the novel by Shena Mackay, published by Minerva in paperback (214 pages, in English).
In 1953, April Harlency moves with her parents to the village of Stonebridge, where they run a tea house. There she befriends Ruby, a dangerous girl fascinated by fire, and meets Mr Greenridge, who follows her around the village. The novel evokes 1950s childhood, mixing the innocent with the sinister, the tragic and the strange.
Finalist for the 1996 Booker Prize. The Orchard on Fire was originally published in 1995; this paperback edition dates from 1997.
For readers of literary fiction and coming-of-age novels set in postwar England.
Shena Mackay FRSL is a Scottish novelist born in Edinburgh. She was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1996 for The Orchard on Fire, and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize and the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2003 for Heligoland.
