Description
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, this is the paperback edition of the novel
about love, growing up and the power of books. Set on a remote South Pacific
island, threatened by uprising, it follows the intertwining stories of Matilda
and her classmates, a boy called Pip and a man named Mr Dickens. An
unforgettable tale of survival by story. '}Mister Pip{ is the first of Jones's
six novels to have travelled from his native New Zealand to the UK. It is so
hoped that it won't be the last.' }Observer{