The Scandaroon (novel)

The Scandaroon
AuthorHenry Williamson
IllustratorKen Lilly
LanguageEnglish
PublisherMacdonald & Co
Publication date
1972
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Pages152

The Scandaroon is a 1972 novel by the English writer Henry Williamson. It is set in a Devon village in the 1920s and is about people who raise and train homing pigeon and participate in pigeon racing, as a rare Scandaroon pigeon arrives. It was Williamson's last novel.[1][2]

Kirkus Reviews called it a "discreetly atmospheric book" with a "wealth of information and pleasing lyrical tributes to the birds and their handsome enemies -- the hawks".[3]

References

  1. ^ Wade, Rosalind (1972). "Quarterly Fiction Review". The Contemporary Review. 220–221: 213.
  2. ^ "The Scandaroon". Publishers Weekly. Vol. 203, no. 1–13. 1973. p. 252.
  3. ^ "The Scandaroon". Kirkus Reviews. 1 April 1973.