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| Author(s) | Laura Beatty |
| Cover artist | photo taken by David Spero at Brithdir Mawr |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Chatto & Windus |
| Publication date | 2008 |
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| Pages | 320 |
| ISBN | 0-7011-8209-1 |
Pollard is a novel written by Laura Beatty published in 2008 by Chatto & Windus in hardback and the following year in paperback by Vintage Books[1]. This was her first novel though she had previously written biographies, it won the Authors' Club First Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize[2]
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The novel concerns Anne, a teenager who leaves her chaotic home life and finds sanctuary in the nearby woods where she makes a new life for herself; foraging and hunting for food and building a house for herself...
The author lives in Salcey Forest in Northamptonshire, one of the few remaining medieval hunting forests in England[3] and which provided the inspiration for the novel, including a tree-top walkway and survival courses.[4]