A Robot in the Garden Paperback by Deborah Install

Product Details

• Publisher: Random House Canada (2015-06-30)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 288 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780345815330
• Item Weight: 255.15 grams
• Dimensions: 20.83 x 14.22 x 2.03 cm

For fans of The Rosie Project and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, a broken man and his damaged robot build an unlikely friendship―with some assembly required.

Ben's really great at failing at things―his job, being a husband, taking the garbage out. But then he finds a battered robot named Tang in his garden. And Tang needs Ben.

More ornery and prone to tantrums than one would expect from something made of gears and springs, Tang desperately must be fixed―and he just might be the thing to fix what's broken in Ben, and in Ben's marriage. Together they will discover that friendship can rise up under the strangest of circumstances, and what it really means to be human.

Funny, touching, charming, wise, and a bit unusual, A Robot in the Garden is a gem of a novel, perfect for anyone who has ever found it difficult to make a connection with the world.

About the Author

DEBORAH INSTALL has been writing fiction since childhood, joining a writing group in 2012. Her debut, A Robot in the Garden, has gone sold over 100,000 copies in more than a dozen languages, including Japanese, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Turkish, Chinese, Thai and Korean, in addition to English editions in Canada, the UK, and US.

A Robot in the Garden is now a popular, bestselling series in Japan, with a radio play in 2017 and a musical theatre production, which opened in October 2020.

Deborah lives in Birmingham with her husband and son, and in her spare time enjoys stories in all their forms, be it books, film and TV or gaming.