FRESÁN, RODRIGO — Kensington Gardens

Faber and Faber 2005 Translated by Natasha Wimmer 415 p. SOFTCOVER: (Orig. paperback VERY GOOD) Spanning more than a century from the late Victorian period - and the intimately-drawn details of the life of JM Barrie - to the dawn of the new millennium - and the fractured life of an internationally acclaimed children s novelist, Peter Hook - Kensington Gardens weaves an intricate cat s cradle of narratives around the Lysergic-London of the Swinging Sixties and the boy who never grew up.