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{{Short description|1993 novel by Tim Pears}}
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| author         = [[Tim Pears]]
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| country        = United Kingdom
| language       = English
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| publisher      = [[Hamish Hamilton]] (UK)<br />[[Donald I Fine]] (US)
| release_date   = 1993 (UK), 1995 (US)
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| media_type     = Print
| pages          = 320
| isbn =  0-241-13322-X
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'''''In the Place of Fallen Leaves''''' is [[Tim Pears]]'s [[debut novel]], published in 1993.  It won the [[Ruth Hadden Memorial Award]] in 1993<ref>{{Cite web |date= |title=Tim Pears |url=http://www.ruskin.ac.uk/staff/profile/98 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402225510/http://www.ruskin.ac.uk/staff/profile/98 |archive-date=2012-04-02 |access-date=2023-03-13 |website=Ruskin}}</ref> and the [[Hawthornden Prize]] in 1994.<ref>{{cite web |date= |title=Tim Pears |url=http://www.amheath.com/profile.php?a=71 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111008032531/http://www.amheath.com/profile.php?a=71 |archive-date=2011-10-08 |accessdate=2011-09-25 |website=A. M. Heath |publisher=}}</ref>
==Inspiration==
On his website, Tim Pears reveals that the novel is set in the [[Devon]] village where he grew up ([[Trusham]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Authors Celebrate Club Anniversary |url=http://express-echo.vlex.co.uk/vid/authors-celebrate-club-anniversary-222544379 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120707220932/http://express-echo.vlex.co.uk/vid/authors-celebrate-club-anniversary-222544379 |archive-date=2012-07-07 |access-date=2012-01-12}}</ref> on the edge of [[Dartmoor]]) He had written many 'appalling' poems in his twenties then adapted one into a story; this liberated him and he never wrote another poem; just stories which eventually became this, his first novel. He cites his other influences as [[Gabriel García Márquez]]’s ''[[One Hundred Years of Solitude]]'', [[Marc Chagall]]’s paintings of the [[Pale of Settlement|Russian Pale]], [[Mikhail Sholokhov]]’s tales of [[Don Cossacks]], and New Zealander [[Vincent Ward (director)|Vincent Ward]]’s film ''[[Vigil (film)|Vigil]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.timpears.com/timpears_in_the_place_of_fallen_leaves_inspiration.asp |title=Archived copy |access-date=12 January 2012 |archive-date=25 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725023731/http://www.timpears.com/timpears_in_the_place_of_fallen_leaves_inspiration.asp |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Plot introduction==
It is set in the long, hot summer of 1984 in an isolated Devon village on the edge of [[Dartmoor]] where thirteen-year-old Alison is growing up, the youngest member of a farming family. The story covers scenes from Alison's own life as well as those of her neighbours, siblings, parents and grandparents.
==Reception==
*"By turns [[elegiac]], moving and extremely funny, Pears is also unafraid to muscle up his formidable powers of [[Proust]]ian evocation. An extraordinarily promising debut" - ''[[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out]]''{{Citation needed|date=March 2023}}
*"Reminiscent of [[William Faulkner|Faulkner]] and [[Garcia Marquez]], the writing retains a very English scale ... A triumph ... Sensitive, heart-warming and hallucunatory." - ''[[Financial Times]]''{{Citation needed|date=March 2023}}
*"''In the Place of Fallen Leaves'' is more perfect than any first novel deserves to be." - ''[[The Observer]]''{{Citation needed|date=March 2023}}
==References==
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==External links==
*{{official website|http://www.timpears.com/timpears_otherbooks.asp}}
[[Category:1993 British novels]]
[[Category:Novels set in Devon]]
[[Category:Fiction set in 1984]]
[[Category:Family saga novels]]
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[[Category:Hamish Hamilton books]]
[[Category:Hawthornden Prize–winning works]]
[[Category:1993 debut novels]]