PART FAIRY TALE, PART MYSTERY, PART COMING-OF-AGE NOVEL, FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF LIFE AFTER LIFE
New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year
This is the story of Isobel Fairfax, a girl growing up in Lythe, a typical 1960's 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 Shakespearian time warps. A virtuoso feat of imagination and storytelling, "Human Croquet offers further proof that Kate Atkinson is off and running in quite a fantastic direction of her own devising…" (Katherine Weber, The New York Times Book Review).
