Under one roof (book)
Under one roof ( original title: The Birds on the Trees ) is a novel by Nina Bawden that was published in 1970 and is about a middle-class English family whose 19-year-old son does not meet his parents' expectations.
The Birds on the Trees was announced on March 26, 2010, as one of six books nominated for the 1970 Lost Man Booker Prize , "a competition that had been postponed forty years because a rule change was nearly one Annual volume of high-quality fictional works had to be disregarded “(" a contest delayed by 40 years because a reshuffling of the fledgeling competition's rules that year disqualified nearly a year's worth of high-quality fiction from consideration ").
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Toby Flower is a shy, silent youth who grew his hair long and began to wear a burnoose . His father, an editor, and his mother, a novelist, are plunged into despair when Toby is expelled from school for using drugs . Unable to help their son with his troubles, Charlie and Maggie Flower continue to project their own goals and hopes onto their son. They are still talking about going to university despite Toby's assertion that he is not interested in further education. Toby actually breaks out of the suffocating atmosphere, leaves home and moves to London , where he lives in a basement apartment without maintaining contact with his parents.
Charlie and Maggie Flower eventually turn to a psychiatrist friend . This psychiatrist agrees to admit Toby to psychiatry and treat him for mental illness . Meanwhile, Toby befriends Hermia, the young but rather unattractive daughter of the psychiatrist, in London and impregnates her. When her parents get together and persuade Hermia to have an abortion , they unwittingly sever the last remaining bond with their son. Toby takes Hermia out of her parents' house, and the young couple moves in with Toby's maternal grandmother, a frail old woman who has been benevolent to the needs of the young people at all times.
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- ↑ Hoyle, Ben: Author waits to hear if she has won 'lost Booker' prize 40 years on . The Times . March 26, 2010. Retrieved April 7, 2010.