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Lanny

By: Max Porter
Narrated by: Annie Aldington, Clare Corbett, David Timson, Jot Davies
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Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2019

Not far from London, there is a village.

This village belongs to the people who live in it and to those who lived in it hundreds of years ago. It belongs to England's mysterious past and its confounding present.

It belongs to Mad Pete, the grizzled artist. To ancient Peggy, gossiping at her gate. To families dead for generations, and to those who have only recently moved here.

But it also belongs to Dead Papa Toothwort who has woken from his slumber in the woods. Dead Papa Toothwort, who is listening to them all.

Chimerical, audacious, strange and wonderful - a song to difference and imagination, to friendship, youth and love, Lanny is the globally anticipated new novel from Max Porter.

©2019 Faber & Faber (P)2019 Faber & Faber Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction England Heartfelt Thought-Provoking Mind-bending Village

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Not the kind of thing I would normally read, but I very much enjoyed it. A simple setting and scenario is examined from several perspectives, creating a vivid, self-contained world, in which
ambiguities are created and resolved.

Dense with meaning, yet skips along lightly.

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This book is a rare and precious thing. For the tight fisted among you, it isn’t many minutes for your credit, but it is worth every penny and more. I absolutely loved it and didn’t want it to end.
I’d describe it as a tale about an unusual boy, a fairy story for adults, full of humour, but also, drama & sadness.
The narration was perfect & every voice fitted perfectly.
What a joy to find it!

I Absolutely Loved This Book!

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Poetic, satirical, fantastical and full of the milk of human kindness. For me, a beautifully crafted odyssey, to be revisited, time and again.

Hauntingly beautiful

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I chose this book after it was recommended on the Graham Norton book club and wasn't disappointed.
It's so unusual and I really enjoyed the whole story. I thought the snippets of random gossip happening in the moment very clever and when Lanny goes missing the mean comments of some show the true nature of humanity.

Wonderful Story

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More than a book, this was an experience that will live long in the memory.

Brilliantly original

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