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Title	:	Human Croquet
Author	:	Kate Atkinson
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 352 pages
Published	:	November 12th 1999 by Picador (first published 1997)
Categories	:	Fiction. Fantasy. Historical. Historical Fiction. Science Fiction. Time Travel. Literary Fiction. Contemporary. European Literature. British Literature

Human Croquet

Kate Atkinson

Paperback | Pages: 352 pages

Rating: 3.72 | 8792 Users | 719 Reviews

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New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year Part fairy tale, part mystery, part coming-of-age novel, this novel tells the story of Isobel Fairfax, a girl growing up in Lythe, a typical 1960s British suburb. But Lythe was once the heart of an Elizabethan feudal estate and home to a young English tutor named William Shakespeare, and as Isobel investigates the strange history of her family, her neighbors, and her village, she occasionally gets caught in Shakespearean time warps. Meanwhile, she gets closer to the shocking truths about her missing mother, her war-hero father, and the hidden lives of her close friends and classmates. A stunning feat of imagination and storytelling, Kate Atkinson's Human Croquet is rich with the disappointments and possibilities every family shares.

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Original Title:	Human Croquet
ISBN:	0312186886 (ISBN13: 9780312186883)
Edition Language:	English URL http://www.kateatkinson.co.uk/books/info/?t=Human-Croquet
Setting:	Warwickshire, England

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This book wants to be in a cage match with McEwan's Atonement, but, lacking confidence in itself, straps some badly explained timetravel to its breasts and tries to distract everyone.Incest! Timetravel! Stolen babies! More incest! Family history! Teenage debauchery! Groundhog Day! Murder! All that....and more. Coming up next on What The Actual Fuck Channel.

"Experimental style" are words that usually put me off reading something; "by Kate Atkinson" are words that always pull me in. And that's how it is with this: it's imaginative and Atkinson is clearly taking her writing skills for a walk, and there are bits where it sort of goes off-piste a bit - but overall, it works. I found myself drawn into the atmosphere and the characters and admiring the title for its cleverness and appropriateness. Not my favourite Atkinson to date, but certainly

I love Kate Atkinson but don't feel this novel is one of her best. Her prose style is still wonderful but this one seemed to lack her usual humour. In places I found it overwhelmingly sad and in others I was totally confused. The ending wasn't as satisfying as it might have been and I felt more than a little let down. Maybe when I've mulled it over a bit more I may feel differently. Still good though, if not particularly enjoyable because of difficult subject matter.Buddy read with Kim :-).

i give it a three even though i enjoyed reading it in a four star kind of way. the three star means there are better books by her out there, but that this one is fun, if imperfect. and its a shame, because she really tells a good story. this one was just a little too ambitious with what it was trying to squeeze in, and there were too many storylines that either didnt connect gracefully, or had to be absorbed by inference. does that make sense?? i am inarticulate. towards the end it gets

Kate Atkinson is an excellent writer. I've read Behind the Scenes at the Museum twice and all the Jackson Brody books. Human Croquet is her second book and deals with a young girl who has an odd habit of time-travelling, or does she? Human croquet is a game using people as hoops, balls (blindfolded) and controllers. Atkinson never has her characters play it, but she alludes to it often. In the book, Atkinson is the controller, bowling her characters this way and that, having them carom off each

I adore Kate Atkinson and enjoyed the humor in this book. The story focuses on a girl in a small (and quite odd) family. She grows up amid a mysterious set of neighbors and relations, dreaming that her dead mother will return to help her through puberty (among other things). As if that were not enough, she also has an odd, uncontrollable habit of time-traveling. Though the story isn't as riveting as Behind the Scenes at the Museum (my favorite Atkinson novel), Atkinson's witty voice is very

Surreal but grounded, quirky but not frivolous, endearing and sad- this is a mystery of lost identity, lost souls, crimes of passion, time warps and warped minds. It's delicious, clever, unsettling, grim and guffaw-inducing. Atkinson is a category unto herself.