- Fiction, Mothers and daughters, Ghosts, Dreams
While living a miserable, poverty-stricken life with her young, irresponsible mother, nine-year-old Theo dreams of belonging to a real family but finds a shadowy figure haunting her thoughts.
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Grave, earnest, contemporary and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Kit Pearson
- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 281
- Publisher
- Tandem Library, Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media, Penguin
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- Chinese, English
- ISBN
- 9780670869541
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Kathleen Margaret Pearson is a Canadian writer of children's novels. She was born in Edmonton, Alberta, in 1947 and lives in Victoria, British Columbia. She has won numerous literary awards, including a Governor-General's Award.
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