num_pages: 352
description: This overwhelmingly hot summer everything seems to be slowing down in the tiny Devon village where Alison lives, as if the sun is pouring hot glue over it. 'This idn't nothin',' says Alison's grandmother, recalling a drought when the earth swallowed lambs, and the summer after the war when people got electric shocks off each other. But Alison knows her grandmother's memory is this is far worse. She feels that time has stopped just as she wants to enter the real world of adulthood. In fact, in the cruel heat of summer, time is creeping towards her, and closing in around the valley.
language: English
title: In The Place of Fallen Leaves
titlecomplete: In The Place of Fallen Leaves
genres: British Literature, Coming Of Age, Adult Fiction, Young Adult, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Modern
ratings_count: 472
places: Devon, England
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Hawthornden Prize, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Ruth Hadden Memorial Award
publisher: Bloomsbury