The Birds on the Trees

Under one roof ( Original title: The Birds on the Trees ) is a novel by Nina Bawden, which was published in 1970 and is about a middle-class English family, not in compliance with the 19 - year-old son the expectations of his parents.

The Birds on the Trees was announced on 26 March 2010 as one of six books that were nominated for the " Lost Man Booker Prize " 1970, " a contest that was postponed forty years because almost one by a rule change had to be annual volume of high quality fictional works pulled out of consideration " (" a contest delayed by 40 years Because a reshuffling of the fledgeling competition 's rules did nearly a year disqualified year's worth of high-quality fiction from consideration " ).

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Flower Toby is a shy, taciturn teenager his hair grow long settled and began to wear a burnus. His father, a publisher, and his mother, a novelist, are plunged into despair when Toby is expelled from school because he took drugs. Unable to help her son with his problems, Charlie and Maggie Flower project further their own goals and hopes for her son. They still talk about it, that he should go to university despite Toby's assertion that he is not interested in further training. Toby actually breaks from 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 finally turn to a fellow psychiatrist. This psychiatrist agrees Toby reinstated in the psychiatry and to seek treatment for mental illness. Meanwhile, Toby befriends in London with Hermia, the young, but quite unattractive daughter of a psychiatrist and impregnates her. When her parents get together and persuade Hermia to an abortion, they separate unknowingly the last remaining strip to her son. Toby brings Hermia from her parents' house, and the young couple moved to Toby's maternal grandmother, a frail old woman who faced sympathetic to the needs of young people all the time.