- Grief, Death, Teenage girls, Romance
Philip Beard’s stunning debut novel is fifteen-year-old Tess DeNunzio’s letter to her sister, Zoe, lost to a hit-and-run driver on a day when it seemed that nothing mattered but the tragedies playing out in New York and Washington.
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Earnest, contemporary, contemplative and character-led.
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Philip Beard
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 208
- Publisher
- Tandem Library, Viking, Penguin Group USA, Inc.
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780786276172
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