- Prejudices, Fiction, Loss (Psychology), Islands
On an isolated English island, fifteen-year-old Caitlin McCann makes the painful journey from adolescence to adulthood through her experiences with a mysterious boy, whose presence has an unsettling effect on the island's inhabitants.
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Contemporary, grave, earnest and classical in form.
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- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Kevin Brooks
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 359
- Publisher
- PUSH
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780439530637
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