Jackie Ballantyne

How to Stop a Heart from Beating (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Brilliantly capturing the voice and perspective of a young girl, this is a heart-warming, lively, funny and intriguing novel. The year 1961 is a pivotal one for nine-year-old Solly McKeen. She is a loner in a family of doubles: a 'single' with no twin of her own, and seen as a bit of an oddity by everyone in her dairy-farming community in South Otago. On learning about the unnamed paupers' graves in the local cemetery, she promises to people them: imagining characters, names and causes of death for each. While Solly unravels death and fills in the blanks on the gravestones, she unwittingly uncovers family secrets.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Random House NZ
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Altersempfehlung: ab 14 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781775532040
• Artikelnr.: 38346515

Autorenporträt

Jackie Ballantyne has worked as a copywriter in advertising in Australia but now lives in Dunedin, writing and teaching Marketing Communication part time at both the University of Otago and Otago Polytechnic. She received high distinction for a writing and editing course in Australia, had a short story shortlisted for the Judah Waten Prize in Australia and won second prize for a story from the Middlesex University Press Literary Prize.