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Author: Sally Nicholls
Publisher: Andersen Press Ltd
Imprint: Andersen Press Ltd
Dimensions:
Width: 14.40cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 22.20cm
Weight: 0.361kg
ISBN: 9781783449903
ISBN 10: 178344990
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 05 November 2020
Recommended Age: From 12 to 17 years
Audience:
Children/juvenile
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Children / Juvenile
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
Nuanced and evocative, this is bittersweet perfection * Books of the Year, Guardian * Sally Nicholls conjures another era with a miraculous lightness of touch that fills me with joy and envy. Her characters don't just leap off the page, they grab you by the collar, demand your sympathy and surprise you at every turn -- Frances Hardinge An engulfing historical novel * Books of the Year, The Times * A page-turner * Books of the Year, Telegraph * This poignant novel confronts truths, secrets, changing social mores and the awful choices made during wartime * Daily Mail *
Sally Nicholls conjures another era with a miraculous lightness of touch that fills me with joy and envy. Her characters don't just leap off the page, they grab you by the collar, demand your sympathy and surprise you at every turn -- Frances Hardinge Gorgeous, poignant, unputdownable. A new Christmas classic -- Hilary McKay A gorgeous, festive treat of a story about family, lost loves and finding yourself again after tragedy. Sally Nicholls is brilliant: her writing reads like silk -- Emma Carroll Beautiful writing about a loving, troubled, real family - this is a book to settle down for the day with -- Holly Webb
"""Nuanced and evocative, this is bittersweet perfection"" * Books of the Year, Guardian * ""Sally Nicholls conjures another era with a miraculous lightness of touch that fills me with joy and envy. Her characters don't just leap off the page, they grab you by the collar, demand your sympathy and surprise you at every turn"" -- Frances Hardinge ""Gorgeously bittersweet, a festive classic in the making"" * Books of the Year, Observer * ""An engulfing historical novel"" * Books of the Year, The Times * ""A page-turner"" * Books of the Year, Telegraph *"
Gorgeous, poignant, unputdownable. A new Christmas classic -- Hilary McKay
Author Information
Sally Nicholls grew up in Stockton-on-Tees, and after school, travelled the world, working for a period at a Red Cross hospital in Japan. Sally's first novel, Ways to Live Forever, won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and she has been shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Costa Children's Book Award, and the Carnegie Medal, twice. She lives in Liverpool with her husband and two sons.
