The First Day of Spring
Autor Nancy Tuckeren Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 feb 2022
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'So that was all it took,' I thought. 'That was all it took for me to feel like I had all the power in the world. One morning, one moment, one yellow-haired boy. It wasn't so much after all.'
Chrissie knows how to steal sweets from the shop without getting caught, the best hiding place for hide-and-seek, the perfect wall for handstands.
Now she has a new secret. It gives her a fizzing, sherbet feeling in her belly. She doesn't get to feel power like this at home, where food is scarce and attention scarcer.
Fifteen years later, Julia is trying to mother her five-year-old daughter, Molly. She is always worried - about affording food and school shoes, about what the other mothers think of her. Most of all she worries that the social services are about to take Molly away.
That's when the phone calls begin, which Julia is too afraid to answer, because it's clear the caller knows the truth about what happened all those years ago.
And it's time to face the truth: is forgiveness and redemption ever possible for someone who has killed?
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781529156478
ISBN-10: 1529156475
Pagini: 385
Dimensiuni: 131 x 197 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: Random House
Colecția Penguin
ISBN-10: 1529156475
Pagini: 385
Dimensiuni: 131 x 197 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: Random House
Colecția Penguin
Notă biografică
Nancy Tucker is a trainee Clinical Psychologist. Her memoir of her childhood struggle with anorexia, The Time in Between, was published in 2015. Her follow-up, That Was When People Started to Worry, an examination of young women's mental health, was published in 2018. The First Day of Spring is her first work of fiction.
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Chrissie is eight years old and she has just killed a boy. The feeling of it made her belly fizz like soda pop. Across her neighbourhood, Chrissie's playmates and their parents are tearful and terrified. But Chrissie she has a secret, thrilling power. Twenty years later, Chrissie has a new identity and name. As Julia, she is working in a cafe to support herself and her six-year-old daughter, Molly. All she wants is a fresh start, but the past hasn't seemed to let her and Molly alone, and when their future is threatened, Chrissie/Julia must find a new way to take matters into her own hands.
Chrissie is eight years old and she has just killed a boy. The feeling of it made her belly fizz like soda pop. Across her neighbourhood, Chrissie's playmates and their parents are tearful and terrified. But Chrissie she has a secret, thrilling power. Twenty years later, Chrissie has a new identity and name. As Julia, she is working in a cafe to support herself and her six-year-old daughter, Molly. All she wants is a fresh start, but the past hasn't seemed to let her and Molly alone, and when their future is threatened, Chrissie/Julia must find a new way to take matters into her own hands.