Common Ground Book Ishiguro. A former bookseller and bibliotherapist at mr b.'s emporium in bath, she now lives and writes in london. It focuses on two young men who first meet when they are teenagers.
It’s a lonely life for stan, at a new school that feels more ordeal than fresh start, and at home where he and his mother struggle to break the silence after his father’s death. *an evening standard must read for 2021*. It is my view that she does so compellingly, crafting an honest.
It focuses on two young men who first meet when they are teenagers.
Ishiguro imparts that she had begun writing common ground in the aftermath of the uk’s eu referendum of 2016, in an attempt to pen a novel that closely observed the impact of the ‘ideological battle’ of belonging for england’s romany and traveller communities, and the importance of friendship in strengthening multicultural ties. ‘a wonderful book, both tender and wise’ okechukwu nzelu. A former bookseller and bibliotherapist at mr b.'s emporium in bath, she now lives and writes in london. Ishiguro’s debut follows the friendship between two boys who meet one afternoon on the common of a small surrey town, each very different than the other.