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Blaithin: between parents, between homes, between the present and the future. What does this young girl see?
Jim: the territorial and narrow-minded Hitler of the allotment. He has to know everything that is going on in his domain. Will he be the one that unearths the truth behind the day’s mysterious events?
Harriet: Living a privileged existence she spends much of her time re-visiting the stark contrast of her past and tending to Yacub, the boy who fell from the sky.
Jas: a teenager seeking refuge from family sorrow, Jas finds herself taken from one drama to another as she witnesses the drama unfolding from her arboreal vantage point.
Lorna: an obsessive middle-aged woman. Walked out on by her husband three weeks ago will a chance encounter in the allotment end her loneliness?
Claudia: a ghost-like tourist uses the allotment to try and grasp a sense of home in this unwelcoming environment.
Jolil: the allotment brings him relief from an emptying life. Behind him his wife, his son, his country and his home. Only memories remain. Does anything lie ahead for Jolil?
Del: finds a unique use for his allotment in the hope of a growing a light-bulb tree. With a passion for planting strange objects, what other secrets has he buried?
Nikki: a purple suede-boot wearing post-op transsexual searching through the allotment for her missing date. Will she find him?
Over the course of 24 hours the events surrounding the mysterious body in the allotment bind and entangle the lives of these characters leaving them irreversibly altered.

Blaithin: between parents, between homes, between the present and the future. What does this young girl see?
Jim: the territorial and narrow-minded Hitler of the allotment. He has to know everything that is going on in his domain. Will he be the one that unearths the truth behind the day’s mysterious events?
Harriet: Living a privileged existence she spends much of her time re-visiting the stark contrast of her past and tending to Yacub, the boy who fell from the sky.
Jas: a teenager seeking refuge from family sorrow, Jas finds herself taken from one drama to another as she witnesses the drama unfolding from her arboreal vantage point.
Lorna: an obsessive middle-aged woman. Walked out…

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    ISBN 13
    9781849140119
    ISBN 10
    1849140111
    Pages
    148
    Book size
    Demy (138mm x 216mm)
    Binding
    Soft Cover / Soft Back
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    Published at
    04/10/2009
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