Black Swan Green Av David Mitchell

<p><h2><b>''ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANTLY INVENTIVE WRITERS OF THIS, OR ANY, COUNTRY'' <i>INDEPENDENT</i></b></h2><br><h3><b>Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and longlisted for the Booker Prize</b></h3><br>''Gorgeous''<br><b><i>DAILY MAIL</i></b><br><br>''Uproariously funny''<br><b><i>EVENING STANDARD</i></b><br><br>''Spellbinding''<br><b><i>TATLER</i></b><br><br>''Brilliant''<br><b><i>NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW</i></b><br><br>''Luminously beautiful''<br><b><i>THE TIMES</i></b><br><br><h3><b>The <i>Sunday Times </i>bestselling fourth novel from the critically acclaimed author of <i>Ghostwritten </i>and<i> Cloud Atlas</i></b></h3><br>January, 1982. Thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor - covert stammerer and reluctant poet - anticipates a stultifying year in his backwater English village. But he hasn''t reckoned with bullies, simmering family discord, the Falklands War, a threatened gypsy invasion and those mysterious entities known as girls. Charting thirteen months in the black hole between childhood and adolescence, this is a captivating novel, wry, painful and vibrant with the stuff of life.<br><br><h3><b>PRAISE FOR DAVID MITCHELL</b></h3><br>''A thrilling and gifted writer''<br><b><i>FINANCIAL TIMES</i></b><br><br>''Dizzyingly, dazzlingly good''<br><b><i>DAILY MAIL</i></b><br><br>''Mitchell is, clearly, a genius''<br><b><i>NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW</i></b><br><br>''An author of extraordinary ambition and skill''<br><b><i>INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY</i></b><br><br>''A superb storyteller''<br><b><i>THE NEW YORKER</i></b></p>