num_pages: 200
description: Everything in Taliesin Jones's small-town life in Wales has suddenly become uncertain. His mother has run off with her hairdresser. His father has taken to talking to the walls, but at least he's talking, as his brother has gone entirely mute. At school, Julie Dyer blows confusing smoke rings at him and Hoop the Mental says there is no God. When Taliesin tries to find this out for sure no one seems to have the answer-no one except Billy Evans, an old man with an exceptional and miraculous talent.
language: English
title: The Testimony of Taliesin Jones
titlecomplete: The Testimony of Taliesin Jones
genres: Fiction
ratings_count: 162
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Somerset Maugham Award, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Betty Trask Award, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Authors' Club Best First Novel Award
publisher: Penguin Books