Finding Violet Park

Informationen zum Autor Jenny Valentine is an award-winning writer for Young Adults. Her first novel Finding Violet Park won the Guardian prize in 2007 and since then she has written six more, including Broken Soup and Fire Colour One , as well as Iggy and Me , a series for younger children. Her work has been published in 19 countries and Hello Now , her latest YA novel, was published in the UK and US in April 2020. She lives all over the place and has two daughters. Klappentext A stunning new look for Jenny Valentine's debut novel, winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize The mini cab office was up a cobbled mews with little flat houses either side. That's where I first met Violet Park, what was left of her. There was a healing centre next door, a pretty Sixteen-year-old Lucas Swain becomes intrigued by the urn of ashes left in a cab office. Convinced that its occupant - Violet Park - is communicating with him, he contrives to gain possession of the urn, little realising that his quest will take him on a voyage of self-discovery and identity, forcing him to finally confront what happened to his absent (and possibly dead) father... Zusammenfassung A stunning new look for Jenny Valentine’s debut novel, winner of the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize

Product details

• Authors: Jenny Valentine, Valentine Jenny
• Publisher: Haper Collins Children's Books
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 13
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.06.2008
• EAN: 9780007291243
• ISBN: 978-0-00-729124-3
• No. of pages: 207
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Children's books up to 11 years of age; London, Greater London, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Coming of Age, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Mysteries & Detective Stories, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Suicide, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Family / Marriage & Divorce, Family & home stories (Children's / Teenage), Crime & mystery fiction (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories, Interest age: from c 13 years, Children’s / Teenage: Crime & mystery fiction