- Fiction, Grief, Babies, Islands
Larkin's family welcomes Sophie into their home, caring for her and teaching her games and new words. They come to love this baby as their own, all the while knowing that eventually Sophie's mother will return one day to take her from them.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Earnest, classical in form, intimate and contemporary.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Patricia MacLachlan
- First published
- 1993
- Pages
- 132
- Publisher
- Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers, Carl Hanser, Dtv
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780440411451
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