The kingdom of childhood: a novel

✍ Scribed by Rebecca Coleman

• Book ID: 100063334
• Publisher: MIRA
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 176 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1299340946

✦ Synopsis

I suppose in the beginning it was a love story... The Kingdom of Childhood is the story of a boy and a woman: sixteen-year-old Zach Patterson, uprooted and struggling to reconcile his knowledge of his mother s extramarital affair, and Judy McFarland, a kindergarten teacher watching her family unravel before her eyes. Thrown together to organise a fundraiser for their failing private school and bonded by loneliness, they begin an affair that at first thrills, then corrupts each of them. Judy sees in Zach the elements of a young man she loved as a child, but what Zach does not realise is that their relationship is for Judy only the latest in a lifetime of disturbing secrets.

Review

Dark and fast-moving...a stark psychological drama. --Publishers Weekly

Wow, what a book! --Carol Fitzgerald, Book Reporter

Don't underestimate the power of this book to get under your skin...this exploration of illicit sex, so chillingly and precisely fleshed out, is a serious pageturner. --Jane Housham, The Guardian

We loved it and think you won t be able to stop talking about this controversial, unsettling and fascinating story. --Lovereading.co.uk

About the Author

A New Yorker by birth, Rebecca Coleman grew up in the close suburbs of Washington, D.C., in an academic family. A year spent in Germany, at the age of eight, would later provide the basis for the protagonist s background in The Kingdom of Childhood. She first learned about the Waldorf School movement at age 14 and quickly developed a fascination with its culture and philosophies.

Library : General
Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 9781408957288