Deborah Install
Deborah Install has been writing fiction since childhood, submitting her first book to a publisher at the age of eight. Her love of writing persisted, leading to a number of jobs, including web journalism and her most recent role as copywriter at a design and marketing agency. A ROBOT IN THE GARDEN came about while caring for her new baby. She lives in Birmingham UK with her husband, toddler and affectionate but imperious cat.
"Deborah Install has created a robot to remember! A most unusual and delightful book." —Alexander McCall Smith
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News
Warner Brothers Japan has adapted Deborah Install’s debut, A Robot in the Garden, for live-action film.
To be released under the title TANG in August 2022.
Books
A Robot in the Garden
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. 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 first novel, perfect for anyone who has ever found it difficult to connection with the world.
(Sourcebooks, May 2016)