The Roundabout Man |
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Author:
| Morrall, Clare |
ISBN: | 978-0-340-99431-3 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2012 |
Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $29.99 |
Book Description:
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Who is the Roundabout Man? #65533; He doesn't look like a tramp, yet he lives on a roundabout in a caravan and survives on the leftovers from a nearby motorway service station. He calls himself Quinn, the name of a boy in a world-famous series of children's books, but he's nearer retirement than childhood. #65533; What he hopes no one will discover is that he's the
real Quinn, immortalised as a child by his mother in her entrancing tales about a little...
More DescriptionWho is the Roundabout Man?
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He doesn't look like a tramp, yet he lives on a roundabout in a caravan and survives on the leftovers from a nearby motorway service station. He calls himself Quinn, the name of a boy in a world-famous series of children's books, but he's nearer retirement than childhood.
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What he hopes no one will discover is that he's the real Quinn, immortalised as a child by his mother in her entrancing tales about a little boy's adventures with his triplet sisters. It is this inheritance he has successfully run away from - until now. When#65533; Quinn's reclusive existence is invaded, he has to turn and face his past, and all the#65533; uncomfortable truths it contains about himself, his sisters and, most of all, his mother.
By the author of Astonishing Splashes of Colour and The Man Who Disappeared,#65533; The Roundabout Man delivers a wittily observed slice of modern life as it plumbs the gulf between nostalgia and reality.
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