Description
ISBN: 0434000671
Title: The Orchard on Fire
Author: Mackay, Shena
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Heinemann, London
Publication Date: 1995
Edition: First Edition
Book Condition: NF
D-j Condition: F
Comments: Tight copy. Front board has a very small bump.
Synopsis: When Percy and Betty Harlency abandon their seedy Streatham pub, for the Copper Kettle Tearoom in Kent, life for their daughter April changes dramatically. She is befriended by the wonderfully dangerous Ruby, whose red hair and brutal home life emphasise her love of fire, and by the immaculately dressed Mr. Greenridge who likes to follow her around the village. Mingling the innocent with the sinister and laced with the tragic and the bizarre, this is a rare evocation of a 1950s childhood.
