num_pages: 265
description: This novel is set in a small town in Canada in the 1950s and 1960s. It is a story about love, about mercy, about persistence of the past with all its ambiguities, and its contradictions and its potency.
language: English
title: Childhood
titlecomplete: Childhood
genres: Fiction, Canada, Adult, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Audiobook
ratings_count: 385
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Scotiabank Giller Prize, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Trillium Book Award, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC