The Cement Garden

Orphaned siblings create a macabre secret world for themselves in this “irresistibly readable” novel by the New York Times -bestselling author ( The New York Review of Books ).   This “powerful and disconcerting” novel by the Booker Prize-winning author of The Children Act and Atonement ( The Daily Telegraph ) tells the story of a dying family who live in a dying part of the city. A father of four children decides, in an effort to make his garden easier to control, to pave it over. In the p