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The Cement Garden

AuthorIan Mcewan

NarratorJulian Rhind-Tutt

Duration4h 28m

CategoriesAdult Fiction, Novels

PublisherChivers

VersionUnabridged

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In the relentless summer heat, four abruptly orphaned children retreat into a shadowy, isolated world, and find their own strange and unsettling ways of fending for themselves... CONTAINS ADULT THEMES.

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