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A Girl Called Blue
Marita Conlon-Mckenna
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Description for A Girl Called Blue
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Larch Hill is the only home Blue knows. She arrived there just a few days old, wrapped in a blue blanket. Her one hope is to find her mother or father and have a family of her own.
Larch Hill is the only home Blue knows. She arrived there just a few days old, wrapped in a blue blanket. Her one hope is to find her mother or father and have a family of her own.
Fostered out several times, Blue finds it difficult to fit in. Is there no one out there who really wants her? No one who can really love her?
Blue must put up with the orphanage, with the distant and strict care of the nuns. She does have her friends, Mary and Jessie and Molly and Lil, but they're not family. They're not enough.
In ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2022
Publisher
The O'Brien Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9781788493314
SKU
9781788493314
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-5
About Marita Conlon-Mckenna
Born in Dublin in 1956 and brought up in Goatstown, Marita went to school at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Mount Anville, later working in the family business, the bank, and a travel agency. She has four children with her husband James, and they live in the Stillorgan area of Dublin. Marita was always fascinated by the ... Read more
Reviews for A Girl Called Blue
'the details of the girls' daily lives and the characters of Blue, Sister Monica and Jimmy Mooney catch and sustain the reader's interest'
Lesley Martin - The School Librarian
The School Librarian
'there is a sense of moderation rather than sentimentality in Conlon-McKenna's writing, in so much as, the misfortunes and joys that befall Blue are very ... Read more
Lesley Martin - The School Librarian
The School Librarian
'there is a sense of moderation rather than sentimentality in Conlon-McKenna's writing, in so much as, the misfortunes and joys that befall Blue are very ... Read more