Human Croquet

13 hrs. 8 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Kate Atkinson

Narrator Irina Yerisanova

Description

Now meet Isobel. On April 1st, she turns sixteen. With her brother Charles, she lives in the mansion “Arden,” built on the site of an old aristocratic Fairfax estate, and they are waiting for their mother to return. “Our life has been shaped out of the absence of Elayza,” Isobel says. “She left… and for some reason forgot to take us with her. Maybe out of distraction, or maybe she meant to come back, but got lost. Anything can happen—say, after her disappearance our father also vanished, and then, seven years later, returned and blamed everything on loss of memory.” They say the First Lady Fairfax was abducted by elves; and now, in the place where she was taken, a oak tree grows—on its bark, according to legend, Shakespeare left his initials—and a curse hangs over the Fairfax family. Isobel knows her past well and is sure she knows the future, but today’s day is a riddle for her…