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The coward's tale

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Format: Hardback
Library Classification: Adult Fiction
BIC Subjects: Modern fiction
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication Date: 25/01/2012
Place of Publication: United Kingdom

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'My name is Laddy Merridew. I'm a cry-baby. I'm sorry.' 'And my name is Ianto Jenkins. I am a coward. And that's worse.' The boy Laddy Merridew, sent to live with his grandmother, stumbles off the bus into a small Welsh mining community, where he begins an unlikely friendship with Ianto Passchendaele Jenkins, the town beggar-storyteller. Ianto is watchman over the legacy of the collapse many years ago of Kindly Light Pit, a disaster whose echoes reverberate down the generations of the town. Through Ianto's stories Laddy is drawn into both the town's history and the conundrums of the present.

'Tender and gripping - a brilliantly written epic' Maggie Gee 'The unlikely but entirely legitimate child of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Dylan Thomas, The Coward's Tale invests everyday life with a quality at once whimsical and heroic' Charles Lambert

Title: The coward's tale
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Contributors: By (author) Vanessa Gebbie

ISBN 13: 9781408821565
ISBN 10: 1408821567

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication Date: 25/01/2012
Place of Publication: London, United Kingdom
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BIC Subjects: Modern fiction
NBS Classification: General & Literary Fiction
Dewey Classification: 823.92 (DC22)

Format: Hardback
Pages: 384
Height: 216mm
Width: 135mm
Thickness: 31mm