My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece
My sister Rose lives on the mantelpiece.
Well, some of her does.
A collarbone, two ribs, a bit of skull, and a little toe.
To ten-year-old Jamie, his
family has fallen apart because of the loss of someone he barely remembers: his
sister Rose, who died five years ago in a terrorist bombing. To his father,
life is impossible to make sense of when he lives in a world that could so
cruelly take away a ten-year-old girl. To Rose's surviving fifteen year old
twin, Jas, everyday she lives in Rose's ever present shadow, forever feeling
the loss like a limb, but unable to be seen for herself alone.
Told with warmth and humor, this powerful story is a sophisticated take on one family's struggle to make sense of the loss that's torn them apart... and their discovery of what it means to stay together.
Told with warmth and humor, this powerful story is a sophisticated take on one family's struggle to make sense of the loss that's torn them apart... and their discovery of what it means to stay together.
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Format: Audiobook
Price: $19.98 US/$21.98 CAN
ISBN-13: 9781611132427
On Sale Date: 08/14/2012
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Formats Available: Hardcover Book, Electronic Book, Audiobook
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My sister Rose lives on the mantelpiece.
Well, some of her does.
A collarbone, two ribs, a bit of skull, and a little toe.
To ten-year-old Jamie, his
family has fallen apart because of the loss of someone he barely remembers: his
sister Rose, who died five years ago in a terrorist bombing. To his father,
life is impossible to make sense of when he lives in a world that could so
cruelly take away a ten-year-old girl. To Rose's surviving fifteen year old
twin, Jas, everyday she lives in Rose's ever present shadow, forever feeling
the loss like a limb, but unable to be seen for herself alone.
Told with warmth and humor, this powerful story is a sophisticated take on one family's struggle to make sense of the loss that's torn them apart... and their discovery of what it means to stay together.
Told with warmth and humor, this powerful story is a sophisticated take on one family's struggle to make sense of the loss that's torn them apart... and their discovery of what it means to stay together.
Annabel Pitcher graduated from Oxford University with a degree in English Literature, and went on to edit television scripts for the comedy Harry Hill and the long-running soap opera Coronation Street. She is now an English teacher in West Yorkshire, England, where she grew up. Annabel started writing My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece in Ecuador, on a round-the-world trip, and finished it in Jordan. This is her debut novel.
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"It lives off the page. It has a warmth you can bask in; an honesty you can cut with a knife." (The Guardian UK).
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Product Details
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Price: $19.98 US/$21.98 CAN
- Audio Run Time: 360
- ISBN-13: 9781611132427
- On Sale Date: 08/14/2012
- Publisher: None
- List Price: $17.99
- Pages: 224
- Physical Dimensions: 5-1/2" x 8-1/4"
- ISBN-13: 9780316176903
- On Sale Date: 08/14/2012
- Publisher: None
- List Price: $9.99
- ISBN-13: 9780316201858
- On Sale Date: 08/14/2012
- Publisher: None
- List Price: $19.98
- Audio Run Time: 360
- ISBN-13: 9781611132427
- On Sale Date: 08/14/2012
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