
Like Rabbits
Lynne Bryan(Author)
Sceptre (Publisher)
Published on 31. December 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-340-73971-6 (ISBN)
Description
Five-year-old Lily lives in a hutch-like flat in a high-rise with her single mother, Donna, a student, and her grandfather, Jim, who breeds rabbits. Lily's mind is a stew. She worries about the corridors outside her home, the crazy-on-drugs men, ghosts, aliens and her Grandad's poorly ticker, and at times of great stress, she wants to be a rabbit. One Saturday she and Jim go to a rabbit show and Lily narrates the day's events, unconsciously weaving into its routine family stories and memories, as she tries to get to grips with her world. But the unpredictable behaviour of adults, their secrets and promises and rules, continually defeat her and as the day progresses it becomes apparent that even her Grandad, the person with whom she feels safest, might let her down.
Reviews / Votes
'[A] sweet and funny novel... In a sustained act of ventriloquism, Bryan reveals the tangled world of family relationships through Lily whose misunderstandings of adult and teenage conversation raise many a smile.' - Anthea Lawson, The Times; 'Bryan has a keen ear for the idiosyncracies of kid-speak, and this gift makes her junior creation so touchingly real, so fresh, and so alive' - Liz Jensen, Independent; 'A heart-warming and poignant story of a young girl coming to grips with the world around her.' - OK magazineMore details
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Hodder & Stoughton
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 128 mm
Width: 195 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-340-73971-6 (9780340739716)
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Person
Lynne Bryan is a graduate of the UEA Creative Writing course and the author of the story collection Envy at the Cheese Handout (Faber 1995) and the novel Gorgeous (Sceptre 1999). She lives in Norwich with the writer Andrew Cowan and their daughter Rose. Like Rabbits is her second novel.