8vo. pp 310. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered silver on spine. Signed presentation from the author on the front endpaper, "To Susan, all best wishes from Tim - March 1993." ISBN: 024113322X Fine in fine dust jacket and original wrappround band.

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Title: IN THE PLACE OF FALLEN LEAVES. (SIGNED)
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, London
Publication Date: 1993
Language: English
ISBN 10: 024113322X
ISBN 13: 9780241133224
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Selected by BOMC as a candidate for the Best First Fiction Award of 1995, this stunning novel has received wide acclaim. This captivating debut novel roams the dry valley or a rural English village during the summer drought of 1984, revealing lushness in simplicity and the awesome untapped power and wisdom of a girl on the verge of womanhood.--Kirkus Review.

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Tim Pears is the author of eight novels: In the Light of Morning, In the Place of Fallen Leaves (winner of the Hawthornden Prize and the Ruth Hadden Memorial Award), Wake Up, Blenheim Orchard, In a Land of Plenty(made into a ten-part BBC series), A Revolution of the Sun, Landed (shortlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2012 and the 2011 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, winner of the MJA Open Book Awards 2011), and Disputed Land. He has been Writer in Residence at Cheltenham Festival of Literature and Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Oxford Brookes University, and has taught creative writing at Ruskin College and elsewhere. He lives in Oxford with his wife and children. timpears.com

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