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Spirit House, EPUB eBook

Spirit House EPUB

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2014 ONDAATJE PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE MILES FRANKLIN AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDDavid is thirteen and confused.

His mum has left with her lover and dumped David on his grandparents.

David's grandfather, Jimmy, is seventy. He spends his days at the social club grumbling with his three best friends, all of them Jewish-Australian survivors of the enforced labour camps of the WWII Thai-Burma Railroad.

But behind their playful backbiting and irresistible wit, Jimmy and his friends are haunted by the ghosts of long-dead comrades, and the only person Jimmy can confide in is a thirteen-year-old from a different world...

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