Trouble Was: 'A gulpable coming-of-age novel about growing up too soon' - i paper, Books of the summer
Autor Charlotte Edwardesen Limba Engleză Hardback – 2 iul 2026
'A transporting piece of 1970s gothic with a viscous sensory pull' The Times
'Evocative, resonant, and quite simply, brilliant' Claire Fuller
'Like the building of a thunderstorm through a sultry day . the novel's engines thrum from the first page' Sarah Moss, Guardian
'Disturbing and heartbreaking in equal measure' Hari Kunzru
'To view the world through the lens of Frank Dart is a moving and captivating experience' Irish Times
A powerfully evocative and tenderly realised debut novel about family secrets, the power of imagination - and coming of age in the dying dreams of the 1970s
1976. Nine-year-old Frank Dart dreams of his absent dad, away at sea; while making sure his mum's got all the cigarettes she needs for the long drive in their battered Citroën down to their new home in North Devon.
Here in Aunt Perry's house, Frank and his little sister Odette must make sense of their cousins' hostility - while their mum seems to drift further and further away. The house is haunted by secrets, past and present; and as spring turns to a suffocatingly hot summer, the past threatens to boil over and scald everything in its wake.
Trouble Was is a raw and tender story of growing up too soon, betrayal and resilience, love and survival - and a dazzling exploration of toxic family politics, buried secrets and the power of the imagination.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781526698605
ISBN-10: 1526698609
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 144 x 218 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1526698609
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 144 x 218 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Recenzii
Taut, atmospheric . This is a transporting piece of 1970s gothic with a viscous sensory pull, its observations of class, behaviour, dress and coded language resonant. As the heatwave summer blooms, then rots, Edwardes ramps up the sense of incipient dread . After such a striking, assured start, it is intriguing to wonder what she could do next
A haunting debut . the novel's engines thrum from the first page . Like the building of a thunderstorm through a sultry day . The joy here is that of good writing
Moving and captivating ... Edwardes writes the toughness of toxic families with great tenderness. This is a powerful evocation of childhood and the treachery of the adults who are meant to protect them
I've read no better novel in years. It's intimate and enormous, of its time and timeless, in the way great novels are. I think it has the makings of a classic
Crisply told, shot through with slow-burn menace, it's a period novel that avoids nostalgia to be clear-eyed about cruelty and heartache
A really skillful storyteller ... Shades of early Ian McEwan ... Very well-written ... This is really capturing something
The drama is in the detail, and it's here that the book comes alive, Frank's child's-eye narration perfectly suited to capturing the specificity of every tiny detail ... A terrific debut
A gulpable coming-of-age novel about growing up too soon
Perfectly captures the long hot summer of 1976 from a child's eye view. Evocative, resonant, and quite simply, brilliant
An evocation of a seventies English childhood that's so intense, so immediate, that you can almost taste the sticky orange squash on your tongue. Trouble Was is disturbing and heartbreaking in equal measure
Vivid, involving, full of feeling and acutely observed moments
Gripping ... An unforgettable account of a child struggling to understand the dysfunctionality of the grown ups around him, trying to make sense of an impenetrably complex adult world. Edwardes' clear, sharp writing transports you to the past so powerfully that you can smell the 1970s. I loved it
Trouble Was gives us childhood with breath-taking precision - the shifting loyalties and life-altering betrayals (big and small), the fog of an adult world illuminated by a child's uncanny insight, the unbearably steadfast love children have for their often unlovable parents. One of the most beautiful, and heart-rending, books I've read in a long time
A child's-eye view of a fraught and often treacherous adult world: rarely has a novel succeeded in such a tense and tender capturing ... The masterly evocation of a hot and troubling 1970s summer meshes with a growing tension in the telling. Searingly written and tautly paced: you feel for the children in this novel, and you fear for them
A story of complicated families and yearning for an easier life
A haunting debut . the novel's engines thrum from the first page . Like the building of a thunderstorm through a sultry day . The joy here is that of good writing
Moving and captivating ... Edwardes writes the toughness of toxic families with great tenderness. This is a powerful evocation of childhood and the treachery of the adults who are meant to protect them
I've read no better novel in years. It's intimate and enormous, of its time and timeless, in the way great novels are. I think it has the makings of a classic
Crisply told, shot through with slow-burn menace, it's a period novel that avoids nostalgia to be clear-eyed about cruelty and heartache
A really skillful storyteller ... Shades of early Ian McEwan ... Very well-written ... This is really capturing something
The drama is in the detail, and it's here that the book comes alive, Frank's child's-eye narration perfectly suited to capturing the specificity of every tiny detail ... A terrific debut
A gulpable coming-of-age novel about growing up too soon
Perfectly captures the long hot summer of 1976 from a child's eye view. Evocative, resonant, and quite simply, brilliant
An evocation of a seventies English childhood that's so intense, so immediate, that you can almost taste the sticky orange squash on your tongue. Trouble Was is disturbing and heartbreaking in equal measure
Vivid, involving, full of feeling and acutely observed moments
Gripping ... An unforgettable account of a child struggling to understand the dysfunctionality of the grown ups around him, trying to make sense of an impenetrably complex adult world. Edwardes' clear, sharp writing transports you to the past so powerfully that you can smell the 1970s. I loved it
Trouble Was gives us childhood with breath-taking precision - the shifting loyalties and life-altering betrayals (big and small), the fog of an adult world illuminated by a child's uncanny insight, the unbearably steadfast love children have for their often unlovable parents. One of the most beautiful, and heart-rending, books I've read in a long time
A child's-eye view of a fraught and often treacherous adult world: rarely has a novel succeeded in such a tense and tender capturing ... The masterly evocation of a hot and troubling 1970s summer meshes with a growing tension in the telling. Searingly written and tautly paced: you feel for the children in this novel, and you fear for them
A story of complicated families and yearning for an easier life