![]() ![]() Woman on Fire-A young girl lives with her mother’s boyfriend when her mentally ill mother is admitted into hospital. School of Hardknocks-Amina is a new high school student after migrating from Bosnia and struggles to acclimate to the Aussie way of life. The Cuckoo’s Song-Francesca is ten years old when the gypsy fortune-teller told her the day and the hour of her death and she has been waiting since.įragments-Seka and her brother forage for books in a bombed-out school in Srebrenica during the Balkan war.įriends Forever-Two lifelong friends share a room at a nursing home, as well as a secret or two. ![]() Slowly they swivelled, until their gaze was resting on Triss's face. The first things to shift were the doll's eyes, the beautiful grey-green glass eyes. Thriller stories with a twist of vindictiveness and retribution, and love stories that make the heart sing, this collection will delight and entertain. Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge, the Costa Award-winning author of The Lie Tree, is a fantastically eerie and beautifully written novel, and was shortlisted for the prestigious Carnegie Medal. ![]() Featuring powerful and moving stories of family dissolution, deprivation of war, tenderness of family and the heart-rending experiences of mental illness. Cuckoo (source: 'Jubilee Songbook', Girl Guides of Canada, 1971. Award-winning author Amra Pajalić showcases her gritty, poignant and sometimes bruising voice in this eclectic short story book of previously published and prize-winning stories. ![]()
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