A Crooked Tree din Una Mannion

Categorie: Bücher
Pagini / Format: 336 S
Anul apariţiei: 2021
Editura: Faber&Faber, LondonFaber&Faber
Limba: Englisch
ISBN: 9780571357970
ediţie / volum: Main

This is the story of Libby and her siblings over one long hot summer, and how one decision can have terrible unintended consequences...My mother made a snap decision.<br>How could we know it would change us forever?<br><br>THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER<br><br>'Brimming with curiosity and wonder.'Irish Times<br>'Lushly atmospheric.'Daily Mail<br>'Thoroughly gripping.'Lucy Caldwell<br>'Brilliant.'Sara Baume<br><br>Rage. That's the feeling engulfing the car as Ellen's mother swerves over to the hard-shoulder and orders her daughter out onto the roadside. Ignoring the protests of her other children, she accelerates away, leaving Ellen standing on the gravel verge in her school pinafore and knee socks as the light fades.<br><br>What would you do as you watch your little sister getting smaller in the rear view window? How far would you be willing to go to help her? The Gallagher children are going to find out. This moment is the beginning of a summer that will change everything.<br><br>**Una Mannion's latest novel, TELL ME WHAT I AM, is available to pre-order now**2GBUna Mannion was born in Philadelphia and lives in County Sligo Ireland. She has won numerous prizes for her poetry and short stories. Her work has been published in the Irish Times, Winter Papers and anthologised in story collections. Her debut novel was shortlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards, the Dalkey Literary Awards, and won the 2022 Kate O'Brien Award.

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