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Zusatztext Hilary McKay's strength lies in her understanding of young people and her ability to evoke them very simply. Informationen zum Autor Hilary McKay won the Guardian Children`s Award with her first novel! The Exiles. Her subsequent work has achieved similar recognition - The Exiles at Home won the Smarties Prize and Saffy`s Angel won the Whitbread. A graduate of Botany and Zoology from St Andrews University! Hilary now writes full-time. She lives in Derbyshire with her husband and two children. Earning money to sponsor a child in Africa has never been so difficult, or more hilarious, as the four Conroy sisters discover! The second novel in the much-loved Exiles series and winner of the Smarties Prize. Zusammenfassung The second novel in the much-loved Exiles series and winner of the Smarties Prize. When Ruth Conroy decides to sponsor a child in Africa! she is unprepared for the difficulties involved in finding £10 a month. So she enlists the help of her sisters - Phoebe! Naomi and Rachel - who are only too eager to dream up hare-brained fund-raising schemes . . . Undisciplined baby-sitters! unhygienic caterers or fraudulent pavement artists! their hilarious projects never fail to cause chaos and mayhem.
