It's a dank January in the Worcestershire village of Black Swan Green and 13 year old Jason Taylor, covert stammerer and reluctant poet, anticipates a stultifying year in the deadest village on Earth. But Jason hasn't reckoned on a junta of bullies, simmering family discord, the Falklands War, an exotic Belgian emigre, a threatened gypsy invasion and the caprices of those mysterious entities known as girls.
'Black Swan Green' charts 13 months in the black hole between childhood and adolescence, set against the sunset of an agrarian England still overshadowed by the Cold War.
Dimensions:152 x 230
Author: David Mitchell
ISBN: 9780340839263
Format: Trade Paperback
Pages 384