The Two Pound Tram
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:1st Nov '04
Should be back in stock very soon
A Swallows and Amazons or The Railway Children for grown-ups and a perfect Christmas gift Winner of the Authors' Club Best First Novel 'Sagittarius' Award 2004 Press advertising
Old-fashioned and eccentric in tone, this book could have been written in the 30's - it's a modern-day classicWilfred and Duncan live in a large old house in Sussex, only ever see their parents on Wednesdays, and spend their days catching butterflies and dreaming of adventure. Then their mother elopes and their already distant father becomes hostile. So the brothers pack their camping equipment and run away from home. They already have a plan. They're going to London to buy a tram they have seen in an advertisement, and it costs two pounds...Lively, funny and charming, The Two Pound Tram is a bittersweet testament to youth, its dreams and its triumph over adversity.
'Rather like Daisy Ashford's The Young Visiters this is a charming, miniature oddity, just right for a Christmas stocking' Sunday Telegraph 'Very occasionally one comes across a book which, in its unexpected delights, inspires one to leap about wild with praise, and rush out to buy copies for friends. This first work by William Newton will surely have this effect Their adventures with the tram are both touching and extraordinary Newton is a wonderful find, it's my book of the year and I shall give it to everyone for Christmas' Spectator 'I predict that this book will become something of a cult it goes on haunting the reader's imagination long after he has put the book down I loved it' Country Life 'The Two Pound Tram is a necklace of miracles, each more beautiful and unbelievable than the last. That it may be author William Newton's memoir may be the most dazzling miracle of all' Los Angeles Times
ISBN: 9780747573333
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
192 pages
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