Name: Sorry Isn't Good Enough von Jane Bailey
SKU: 9781398704930
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Sorry Isn't Good Enough Zusammenfassung

Sorry Isn't Good Enough Jane Bailey

'Richly textured, compelling, emotionally complex' Tammy Cohen

'The trouble is, we don't recognise every danger when we see it. And that's how Mr Man manages to creep into our lives.'

It is 1966, and things are changing in the close-knit Napier Road. Stephanie is 9 years old, and she has plans:

1. Get Jesus to heal her wonky foot
2. Escape her spiteful friend Dawn
3. Persuade her mum to love her

But everything changes when Stephanie strikes up a relationship with Mr Man, who always seems pleased to see her. When Dawn goes missing in the woods during the World Cup final, no one appears to know what happened to her - but more than one of them is lying.

May 1997, and Stephanie has spent her life trying to bury the events of that terrible summer. When a man starts following her on the train home from London, she realises the dark truth of what happened may have finally caught up with her.

Sorry Isn't Good Enough Bewertungen

Told from the perspective of a nine year old embroiled in tragedy that shapes her whole life, childhood memories carried with her that resonate on so many levels, it evokes the past in glorious technicolour. I absolutely loved it and cannot do justice to the goldenness it contains, bitter-sweet and touching. * Amanda Reynolds *
Wonderful. Literally (literally!) couldn't put it down, to me it reads like Joanna Cannon/Maggie O'Farrell with a slice of Stand by Me era Stephen King. * Hayley Hoskins *
Sorry Isn't Good Enough was gripping and surprising, and at turns chilling and heartbreaking. Stephanie's story will stay with me for a long time. * Melanie Golding *
What a wonderful book; it swept me back to the sixties and my own childhood. Touching and gripping - a story that will stay with me. * Jackie Kabler *
The heart of this emotionally-literate coming-of-age story is Stephanie who, with her eccentric take on the world, yearning for love and unexpected bursts of wit, is as believable as she is sympathetic. What seems like a gentle story on first glance soon reveals itself to be much more: full of life's sorrow, joy and misunderstanding. I always love Jane Bailey's books and this is her best yet. * Kate Riordan *
Richly-textured, compelling, emotionally complex. Squeezes your heart until the very last page. * Tammy Cohen *

Über Jane Bailey

Jane Bailey was born and brought up in Gloucestershire, where she now lives. She has written seven novels, including Lark Song, What Was Rescued and Tommy Glover's Sketch of Heaven, and has been shortlisted for the Dillons Fiction prize and the RNA award. She has edited four anthologies of work by young people as Writer-in-Residence for Cheltenham Festivals, First Story and Gloucestershire Hospitals Education Service.

Zusätzliche Informationen

Sku

GOR012268735

ISBN 13

9781398704930

ISBN 10

1398704938

Titel

Sorry Isn't Good Enough Jane Bailey

Autor

Jane Bailey

Zustand

Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

Bindung

Gebundene Ausgabe

Verlag

Orion Publishing Co

Datum

20220203

Anzahl der Seiten

368

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N/A

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