- Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Working class, Children's fiction
The night before Jess goes off to France for a university year abroad, her parents and grandparents gather to celebrate and share the stories of their lives.
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Earnest, warm, intimate and contemplative.
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- intimateepic
- contemplativerelentless
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Berlie Doherty
- First published
- 1986
- Pages
- 128
- Publisher
- Methuen, Lions, Mammoth
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780141318059
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Berlie Doherty is an English novelist, poet, playwright and screenwriter. She is best known for children's books, for which she has twice won the Carnegie Medal. She has also written novels for adults, plays for theatre and radio, television series and libretti for children's opera.
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