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The follow-up to the mermaid story "Lorali". A dramatic return with Laura Dockrill's imagination creating a curious, hilarious adventure not to be missed. Ages: 12+
Info autore
Laura Dockrill is a performance poet and novelist whose inventive and vibrant approach to life is reflected in the vividly imagined worlds she creates. Laura finds creativity in words - from poetry to novels, and scripts to song lyrics. She is author of the Carnegie Medal nominated YA novel
Lorali, as well as the
Darcy Burdock series (Random House) for younger readers, which was also nominated for the Carnegie Medal and shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize in 2014, and
My Mum is Growing Down (Faber). Laura has appeared on Blue Peter and CBeebies and is a frequent poet performer at festivals such as Glastonbury, Hay, Edinburgh and Latitude.
She loves to visit schools and meet young readers who are as spirited as her. In 2020 her first adult title,
What Have I Done? which discussed her own experience with post-partum psychosis was published to widespread critical acclaim. Laura lives in London with her husband and young son. You can follow her on Twitter @LauraDockrill
Riassunto
Forget what you know about mermaids with Laura Dockrill's hilarious, riotous adventure not to be missed. It has been two years since Rory drowned, and Lorali is in Hastings, living the quiet life of a normal teenage girl.
Prefazione
Laura Dockrill makes a dramatic return to the sea in this fantastical follow-up to her sparkling and magnetic mermaid story, Lorali.
Testo aggiuntivo
the story raises some very interesting issues about body image, internet fandom and what it means to be human
