Description
In 1967, a couple embark on a journey across the motorways and landscapes of Britain in this beautiful, expansive and arresting portrait of a life outside social convention
About the Author
Tim Binding was born in Germany in 1947. He is the author of In the Kingdom of Air, A Perfect Execution, Island Madness, On Ilkley Moor, Anthem, Man Overboard, The Champion and the children's book Sylvie and the Songman. He lives in Kent with his wife and daughter.
Reviews
Chronicles an epic road trip that begins in 1967 and finishes sometime after the miner's strike in 1984. Soaked in a postwar English parochialism that's both comfortingly familiar and (to millennial eyes, perhaps) shockingly alien, the book transcends its quotidian English setting with its hallucinatory prose and characters that seem restlessly redrawn on every page . . . We are compelled to read on by the muscular writing, with its salty dialogue and authentic 1960s ambience . . . There's an abundance of pleasures here, from the visionary, CinemaScope quality of the prose to scenes that are genuinely and memorably strange . . . A novel to cherish for its ambition and its portrayal of a vanished world * Literary Review *
Animalistic, thrilling, and intense . . . Beneath the Trees of Eden offers a magical, transformative way of analysing England's roads - and what it means to live a life roaming them * Storgy *
Like On the Road, this is a beatnik journey of a novel, the pace altering between laborious and lightning, justly mirroring life's banality and sudden splinters of change * Lunate *
No less than astonishing - a brilliant and sincere realisation of a landscape, its dark presence, and its power to shape the moods and predilections of those it hosts . . . Beautifully written and affecting * Yorkshire Times *
I have always thought Tim Binding's novels hugely underrated, and his new one, Beneath the Trees of Eden, is as good as ever: a late-1960s bohemian picaresque in which two desperadoes light out across the newly-built English motorways and the Summer of Love hastens on into winter almost from one chapter to the next * The Tablet *
In gorgeous, lyrical prose Tim Binding gives us an England on the cusp of great change as a beautiful, sometimes brutal Arcadia. A glorious road-trip of a novel, with an exquisite love story at its heart -- Louise Kennedy
Binding's performance displays something close to perfect pitch ... A tremendous empathetic achievement - and vastly entertaining -- Praise for 'Man Overboard' * Evening Standard *
Binding fashions a convincing picture of a restless post-war world ... A consistently entertaining and resourceful novel -- D. J. Taylor, Praise for 'Man Overboard' * Guardian *
Book Information
ISBN 9781526616609
Author Tim Binding
Format Hardback
Page Count 432
Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 784g