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Claire King - The Night Rainbow - 9781408841846 - KHN0002077
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The Night Rainbow

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Description for The Night Rainbow Paperback. "Five-year-old Pea (shortened from her French name, Pivoine) and her eerily precocious younger sister, Margot, are left to their own devices for most of one oppressively hot summer in the French countryside after their father is killed in a farm accident and their pregnant and deeply depressed mother takes to her bed."--Library Journal. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 17. Weight in Grams: 228. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
'Emotional and beautifully written, you’ll be on tenterhooks throughout' Stylist 'Quirky, elegant and sweet: I loved it' Joanne Harris 'At once moving and gripping, elegant and spare' Maggie O'Farrell _______________________ During one long, hot summer, five-year-old Pea and her little sister Margot play alone in the meadow behind their house, on the edge of a small village in Southern France. Her mother is too sad to take care of them; she left her happiness in the hospital, along with the baby. Pea's father has died in an accident and Maman, burdened by her double grief and isolated from the ... Read more

Product Details

Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408841846
SKU
KHN0002077
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Claire King
Claire King has found success and acclaim with her prize-winning short stories. Having graduated from Cambridge she now lives and works in France. The Night Rainbow is her first novel. www.claire-king.com @ckingwriter

Reviews for The Night Rainbow
Quirky, elegant and sweet: I loved it!
Joanne Harris
At once moving and gripping, elegant and spare, The Night Rainbow is a daring novel about a child faced with the baffling world of adult grief. Claire King nails the voice of the child narrator from the first page; Pea is a heroine you won't forget
Maggie O’Farrell ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for The Night Rainbow


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