num_pages: 384
description: January, 1982. Thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor – covert stammerer and reluctant poet – anticipates a stultifying year in his backwater English village. But he hasn't reckoned with bullies, simmering family discord, the Falklands War, a threatened gypsy invasion and those mysterious entities known as girls. Charting thirteen months in the black hole between childhood and adolescence, this is a captivating novel, wry, painful and vibrant with the stuff of life.
language: English
title: Black Swan Green
titlecomplete: Black Swan Green
characters: Hugo Lamb, Eva van Outryve de Crommelynck, Jason Taylor, Mark Badbury
genres: Literature, British Literature, Literary Fiction, Coming Of Age, Contemporary, Young Adult, Novels, Fiction, Audiobook, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 41549
places: Worcestershire, England
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Booker Prize
category: Longlist, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Costa Book Award
category: Novel, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: ALA Alex Award
publisher: Hodder and Stoughton