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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Seite 8
... turned her attention on to her father. He was reading a broadsheet, chin in hand as his eyes, narrowed with ... turning her head from side to side as she regarded her reflection in the bedroom mirror. Iro ati buba, she would say, lapsing ...
... turned her attention on to her father. He was reading a broadsheet, chin in hand as his eyes, narrowed with ... turning her head from side to side as she regarded her reflection in the bedroom mirror. Iro ati buba, she would say, lapsing ...
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... turned her head a fraction in his direction, opening her eyes into slits. His dishevelled, sandy hair obscured his forehead, and his greeny—blue eyes were half—open; they looked darker with the overhead light switched off. He had taken ...
... turned her head a fraction in his direction, opening her eyes into slits. His dishevelled, sandy hair obscured his forehead, and his greeny—blue eyes were half—open; they looked darker with the overhead light switched off. He had taken ...
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... turned her head away from her mum for a second, struggling to breathe in the humid air. If she couldn't see him, then how would he see her? Once they were outside, which was only fractionally cooler than the inside, her father had no ...
... turned her head away from her mum for a second, struggling to breathe in the humid air. If she couldn't see him, then how would he see her? Once they were outside, which was only fractionally cooler than the inside, her father had no ...
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... turned her face upwards so the air conditioning cooled her skin, and opened her mouth and gulped loudly, imagining that she was filling up with cold air like a balloon. Then, she looked out of the side window, straight at a man who was ...
... turned her face upwards so the air conditioning cooled her skin, and opened her mouth and gulped loudly, imagining that she was filling up with cold air like a balloon. Then, she looked out of the side window, straight at a man who was ...
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... too. It didn't come. Her mother turned back in her seat and began a discu— ssion with the driver about several places that she'd used to know in the Lagos area. In English. When they arrived at the Bodija house, Jess's grandfather calmly ...
... too. It didn't come. Her mother turned back in her seat and began a discu— ssion with the driver about several places that she'd used to know in the Lagos area. In English. When they arrived at the Bodija house, Jess's grandfather calmly ...
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