The Cement Garden

‘A superb achievement: his porse has instanc,e lucid beauty and his narrative voice has a perfect pose and certainty. His account of deprivation and survival is marvellously sure, and the imaginative alignment of his story is exactly right’ Tom Paulin

In the relentless summer heat, four abruptly orphaned children retreat into a shadowy, isolated world, and find their own strange and unsettling ways of fending for themselves…