Tortoise by Candlelight

With the ferocity of a mother tiger defending her cubs, fourteen-year-old Emmie Bean watches over her household: her amiable drunken father, her gaunt, evangelical old grandmother, her beautiful, wayward sister Alice and most precious of all, eight-year-old Oliver, who has the countenance of an angel and the ethical sense of a cobra. But with the arrival of new neighbours, the outside world intrudes into the isolated privacy of family life and Emmie''s kingdom is no longer secure. Combining the guile of a young child with the desperation of adolescence, Emmie fights to stave off the changes- and the revelations- that growing up necessarily brings.>

Product details

• Authors: Nina Bawden
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 19.03.2026
• EAN: 9781405987165
• ISBN: 978-1-4059-8716-5
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; England, Sagas, FICTION / Sagas, FICTION / Classics, c 1960 to c 1969, Saga fiction (family / generational sagas), Classic fiction: general and literary