The Icarus GirlBloomsbury Publishing, 10.05.2013 - 288 Seiten 'This is a beautiful, haunting story of precocious eight-year-old Jessamy ... This compelling tale of folklore and cultural differences is sure to top the bestseller lists' Daily Mail 'A moving study of alienation' Guardian 'An astonishing achievement' Sunday Telegraph _______________ Jessamy Harrison is eight years old. Sensitive, whimsical, possessed of a powerful imagination, she spends hours writing, reading or simply hiding in the dark warmth of the airing cupboard. As the half-and-half child of an English father and a Nigerian mother, Jess just can't shake off the feeling of being alone wherever she goes, and other kids are wary of her terrified fits of screaming. When she is taken to her mother's family compound in Nigeria, she encounters Titiola, a ragged little girl her own age. It seems that at last Jess has found someone who will understand her. TillyTilly knows secrets both big and small. But as she shows Jess just how easy it is to hurt those around her, Jess begins to realise that she doesn't know who TillyTilly is at all. |
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Helen Oyeyemi. 'Jess?' Her mother's voice sounded through the hallway, mixing with the mustiness around her so Well that the sound almost had a smell. To Jess, sitting in the cupboard, the sound of her name Was strange, Wobbly, misformed ...
Helen Oyeyemi. 'Jess?' Her mother's voice sounded through the hallway, mixing with the mustiness around her so Well that the sound almost had a smell. To Jess, sitting in the cupboard, the sound of her name Was strange, Wobbly, misformed ...
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Helen Oyeyemi. cheerily cluttered with books, paper and broken pens by Jess's mum. There were small patches of front and back garden which Jess's parents, who cited lack of time to tend them and lack of funds to get a gardener, both ...
Helen Oyeyemi. cheerily cluttered with books, paper and broken pens by Jess's mum. There were small patches of front and back garden which Jess's parents, who cited lack of time to tend them and lack of funds to get a gardener, both ...
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... mother Waited, and Jessamy's brow wrinkled as she scanned her face, perplexed. An explanation was somehow still required. 'I was thinking about something,' she said, after another moment. Her mum leaned on the cupboard door, trying to ...
... mother Waited, and Jessamy's brow wrinkled as she scanned her face, perplexed. An explanation was somehow still required. 'I was thinking about something,' she said, after another moment. Her mum leaned on the cupboard door, trying to ...
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... Jess re— luctantly left her towel pillows and stepped out on to the landing. They stood there for a second, looking at each other, then her mother ... mum let go of her, shook her head, laughed. Then she said, 'How would you like for us to go ...
... Jess re— luctantly left her towel pillows and stepped out on to the landing. They stood there for a second, looking at each other, then her mother ... mum let go of her, shook her head, laughed. Then she said, 'How would you like for us to go ...
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... Jess knew was that the smile wasn't a particularly happy one, and that her mother hadn't smiled like that in England. She felt herself, also, growing careful. Her mum tugged at her hand, and Jessamy saw a real smile spread across her ...
... Jess knew was that the smile wasn't a particularly happy one, and that her mother hadn't smiled like that in England. She felt herself, also, growing careful. Her mum tugged at her hand, and Jessamy saw a real smile spread across her ...
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