Black Swan Green

… (1985) by Jeanette Winterson, and Black Swan Green (2006) by David Mitchell.

…audaciously structured Cloud Atlas with Black Swan Green (2006), a relatively straightforward bildungsroman that semiautobiographically follows a stammering 13-year-old growing up in Worcestershire in the 1980s. His fifth work, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (2010), is a historical novel centred on the former Japanese trading island of Dejima…