Jane Bailey
Tommy Glover's Sketch of Heaven
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I need to tell you my story...When Kitty Green returns to the Gloucestershire school where she was once a child evacuee during World World II, she is drawn back into the world she used to inhabit and the boy she can't forget...In 1944 eight-year-old Kitty is placed in Sheepcote village with a cold, unhappy couple, Joyce and Jack Shepherd, who find her Cockney chirpiness repugnant. Neither Joyce nor Jack approve of Kitty's friendship with Tommy Glover, and nurse a mysterious hatred of him. But Kitty's relentless curiosity slowly transforms the strangely troubled marriage of Joyce and Jack, and when she exposes a terrible, long-buried secret, t…
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I need to tell you my story...When Kitty Green returns to the Gloucestershire school where she was once a child evacuee during World World II, she is drawn back into the world she used to inhabit and the boy she can't forget...In 1944 eight-year-old Kitty is placed in Sheepcote village with a cold, unhappy couple, Joyce and Jack Shepherd, who find her Cockney chirpiness repugnant. Neither Joyce nor Jack approve of Kitty's friendship with Tommy Glover, and nurse a mysterious hatred of him. But Kitty's relentless curiosity slowly transforms the strangely troubled marriage of Joyce and Jack, and when she exposes a terrible, long-buried secret, the lives of nearly everyone in the village are changed forever.[keep quotes]
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4721-2840-9
- EAN: 9781472128409
- Produktnummer: 23921172
- Verlag: Constable & Robinson
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Masse: H19.8 cm x B13.0 cm x D1.8 cm 181 g
- Gewicht: 181
Über den Autor
Jane Bailey taught Italian and French in Bristol, where she wrote Promising (shortlisted for the Dillon's Prize) and An Angel in Waiting. Tommy Glover's Sketch of Heaven and Mad Joy are her third and fourth novels.
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