num_pages: 210
description: The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller and Booker Prize Longlisted novel Lanny by the author of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers. Theres a village sixty miles outside London. Its no different from many other villages in England: one pub one church red-brick cottages council cottages and a few bigger houses dotted about. Voices rise up as they might do anywhere speaking of loving and needing and working and dying and walking the dogs.This village belongs to the people who live in it and to the people who lived in it hundreds of years ago. It belongs to Englands mysterious past and its confounding present. But it also belongs to Dead Papa Toothwort a figure schoolchildren used to draw green and leafy choked by tendrils growing out of his mouth. Dead Papa Toothwort is awake. He is listening to this twenty-first-century village to his English symphony. He is listening intently for a mischievous enchanting boy whose parents have recently made the village their home. Lanny.
language: English
title: Lanny
publisher: Faber & Faber