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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... told her had happened weren't true, as if it had been just yesterday that he had sent her to England to go to university, not fifteen years ago, a period of time in which she, Sarah, had properly grown up, and her mother, his wife, had ...
... told her had happened weren't true, as if it had been just yesterday that he had sent her to England to go to university, not fifteen years ago, a period of time in which she, Sarah, had properly grown up, and her mother, his wife, had ...
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... told her something really bad and secret about her mother. When her grandfather snapped his toothpick and didn't say anything else, she prompted him: 'Was it something really bad?' 'It was just something that she did.' 'Yeah?' (Good or ...
... told her something really bad and secret about her mother. When her grandfather snapped his toothpick and didn't say anything else, she prompted him: 'Was it something really bad?' 'It was just something that she did.' 'Yeah?' (Good or ...
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... told Jess with a smile. Jess was confused; her expression said it all. Aunty Funke laughed. 'That doesn't mean that only boys can go in there, it's just that your great—grandfather had it built for his servants, a place for them to ...
... told Jess with a smile. Jess was confused; her expression said it all. Aunty Funke laughed. 'That doesn't mean that only boys can go in there, it's just that your great—grandfather had it built for his servants, a place for them to ...
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