Now in paperback, Atkinson's second novel follows the phenomenal success of her first, }Behind The Scenes At The Museum{, which won the 1995 Whitbread Book of the Year Award. }Human Croquet{ is about Isobel Fairfax, who lives with her brother, father, step-mother and the aunt from Hell. Isobel is waiting for her mother to return from wherever she has been for so many years... Vivid, richly imaginative, hilarious and frightening by turns }Observer{. Will do very well in B format 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' ObserverOnce it had been the great forest of Lythe.
