The Cement GardenAuthor: McEwan, Ian Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Published on 5 June 1997 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage) in the United Kingdom. Paperback 160 pages 198 x 130 x 10 136g 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

Before they know what's happening - everything changes

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