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Pilcrow
First edition
AuthorLaura Beatty
Cover artistphoto taken by
David Spero at Brithdir Mawr
LanguageEnglish
PublisherChatto & Windus
Publication date
2008
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint
Pages320
AwardsAuthors' Club First Novel Award
ISBN0-7011-8209-1

Pollard is the debut novel of Laura Beatty, first published in hardback in 2008 by Chatto & Windus and the following year in paperback by Vintage Books.[1] This was her first novel though she had previously written biographies. It won the Authors' Club First Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize[2]

Plot introduction

The novel concerns Anne, a teenager who leaves her chaotic home life and finds sanctuary in the nearby woods where she makes a new life for herself, foraging and hunting for food and building a house...

Inspiration

The author lives in Salcey Forest in Northamptonshire, one of the few remaining medieval hunting forests in England[3] and which provided the inspiration for the novel, including a tree-top walkway and survival courses.[4]

References

  1. ^ http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/b/laura-beatty/pollard.htm
  2. ^ http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/stories/05/14/ian-mcdonald%E2%80%99s-selected-poems-short-listed-for-ondaatje-prize/
  3. ^ http://unitedagents.co.uk/laura-beatty
  4. ^ http://www.self-willed-land.org.uk/book_review.htm

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