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A Brand New York Times Book Review Notable Guide of the YearPart fairy-tale, part thriller, part coming-of-age novel, this novel tells the story of Isobel Fairfax, a woman growing up in Lythe, an average 1960s English suburb. But Lythe was when the center of an Elizabethan feudal property and house to some small Language teacher called William Shakespeare, and she sometimes gets captured in Shakespearean period warps, as Isobel investigates the background of her neighbors, her family, and her town. Meanwhile, she gets nearer to the invisible lives of her good friends and classmates, her war-hero father, and the surprising facts about her absent mother. A sensational feat of creativity and story-telling, Human Croquet is wealthy with all the options and disappointments every household stocks.