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Home Is Where We Start Growing Up in the Fallout of the Utopian Dream

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Publisher's Synopsis

In the turbulent late seventies, six-year-old Susanna Crossman moved with her mother and siblings from a suburban terrace to a crumbling mansion deep in the English countryside. They would share their new home with over fifty other residents from all over the world, armed with worn paperbacks on ecology, Marx and radical feminism, drawn together by utopian dreams of remaking the world. They did not leave for fifteen years. While the adults adopted new names and liberated themselves from domestic roles, the kids ran free. In the community, nobody was too young to discuss nuclear war and children learned not to expect wiped noses or regular bedtimes. In this memoir, Crossman asks what happens to children who are raised as the product of social experiments and explores how growing up estranged from the outside world shapes her as a parent today.

About the Publisher

Fig Tree

Fig Tree was set up in 2005 and its aim is to publish a list of well written, entertaining, and distinct books. The list is mostly fiction but also publishes history, biography, memoir, and tongue in cheek or off kilter how-to. Bestselling and award winning authors include: Marina Lewycka, Zoe Heller, India Knight, Anita Brookner, Patrick Neate, Martin Gayford, Alex Kapranos, Miranda Carter, Penelope Lively, Rachel Johnson, Kathryn Stockett and Julie Kavanagh

Book information

ISBN: 9780241650905
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint: Fig Tree
Pub date:
DEWEY: 823.92
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 400
Weight: 500g
Height: 222mm
Width: 145mm
Spine width: 36mm