Tortoise By Candlelight Paperback / softback
by Nina Bawden
Part of the Virago Modern Classics series
Paperback / softback
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With the ferocity of a mother tiger defending her cubs, fourteen-year-old Emmie Bean watches over her household: her amiable drunken father, her gaunt, evangelical old grandmother, her beautiful, wayward sister Alice and most precious of all, eight-year-old Oliver, who has the countenance of an angel and the ethical sense of a cobra.
But with the arrival of new neighbours, the outside world intrudes into the isolated privacy of family life and Emmie's kingdom is no longer secure.
Combining the guile of a young child with the desperation of adolescence, Emmie fights to stave off the changes- and the revelations- that growing up necessarily brings.
Powerful, heart-rending, but never sentimental, Tortoise by Candlelight is a captivating excursion into the landscape of youth.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication Date:02/11/2006
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- ISBN:9781844084364
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Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication Date:02/11/2006
- Category:
- ISBN:9781844084364