num_pages: 213
description: When his grandmother dies and his grandfather is sent to a rest home, fifteen-year-old Danny decides to maintain their isolated cottage on the outskirts of town and care for their ancient pig during what will be for him an extraordinary summer. He falls in love with Surinder, a young Indian girl, and the two create a haven for themselves, a refuge from the oppressive world of their bigoted parents and neighbors as well as their own anxieties and discontent. When he is not with Surinder, he makes daily visits to the rest home to see his grandfather, who regales him with tales of pig breeding and slaughter and of the local steel mill in its heyday. And of course there is the pig. But all too soon hints appear of the end of summer and the pig begins to die slowly, and Surinder turns her sights beyond the town limits.
language: English
title: Pig
titlecomplete: Pig
genres: Fiction, Contemporary, 20th Century, British Literature, Young Adult
ratings_count: 332
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Sunday Times/Peters Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Ruth Hadden Memorial Award, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Betty Trask Award, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Authors' Club Best First Novel Award
publisher: Harcourt