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Part coming-of-age novel, part unknown, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep is a quirky and utterly charming debut about a community in need of absolution and two girls learning what it means to belong. Britain, 1976. Mrs. Creasy is lacking, and the Avenue is alive with whispers. The neighbors blame her immediate disappearance on heat influx, but 10-year-olds Elegance and Tilly aren't convinced. As the summer shimmers endlessly on, the girls opt to take matters to their own hands. Influenced by the neighborhood vicar, they go looking for God - they believe if indeed they find him they could also find Mrs. Creasy and bring her home. Spunky, spirited Elegance and frail, nervous Tilly go door to door in search of signs. As the cul-de-sac begins quitting its secrets, the amateur detectives uncover much more than they would have imagined. Instead of finding their lacking neighbor, they need to try to make sense of what they've seen and listened to, and a complicated record of deception starts to emerge. Everyone on the Avenue has something to hide, a reason for not fitted in. It's only in the suffocating heat of the summer that the capability to guard these distinctions becomes impossible. Combined with the parched lawns and the melting pavement, the lives of all neighbors get started to deconstruct. What the girls don't realize is that the lies advised to conceal what took place one fateful day about a decade ago will be the same ones Mrs. Creasy was starting to peel back right before she disappeared. For admirers of Jeannette Wall surfaces' The Silver Celebrity, this "is a gripping debut about the secrets behind every door" (Rachel Joyce, writer of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry).
