The Cement Garden Romance_Gift_Guide "This volume

"This volume

but he’s out of his depth in the stacks: he’s got an urgent assignment due and doesn’t have a clue where to start

its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm

Pucchi finally reaches the Time for Heaven and unlocks the Stand Maiden Heaven

will these characters’ connections become a path to escape

The Cement Garden Romance_Gift_Guide "This volumeIn this "irresistibly readable" (New York Review of Books) tour de force of psychological unease, the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement excavates the ruins of childhood and uncovers things that most adults have spent a lifetime forgettingor denying. In the arid summer heat, four childrenJack, Julie, Sue and Tomfind themselves abruptly orphaned. All the routines of childhood are cast aside as the children adapt to a now parentless