num_pages: 152
description: 2001 cover edition 
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In the relentless summer heat, four abruptly orphaned children retreat into a shadowy, isolated world, and find their own strange and unsettling ways of fending for themselves...
language: English
title: The Cement Garden
titlecomplete: The Cement Garden
characters: Derek, Sue, Julie Barenson, Jack Tenpenny
genres: Fiction, British Literature, Horror, Literature, Adult, Classics, Novels, Contemporary, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 30863
places: United Kingdom
publisher: Vintage