The Year Of The Rat by Clare Furniss
How To Go On When The World Stops!
Pearl
is sixteen with a mother she idolizes, a father she loves and a baby
sister she is excited to meet. Then in a moment everything goes wrong.
Her mother dies, her father pulls away from her in favour of the
daughter that is biologically his and her long awaited baby sister is
nothing more than a wrinkled ugly rat, not to mention the cause of her
mother's death. Somehow no one else sees the rat as she does; no one
else seems to care her mother is gone.
The Year Of The Rat
is the longest, worst year of Pearl's life. One by one everything in
Pearl's life goes wrong and everyone in her life abandons her in-favour
of her baby sister, the rat. Her mother was her best friend, her world,
and when she died Pearl's life changed in an instant, her world was
thrown upside down and nothing would ever be the same again. A
touchingly tragic story of grief, secrets, family and the unexpectedness
of life.
On sale: 01 May 2014Price (AU): $19.99
ISBN: 9781471121715
Recommended age: 12+
In a word: Rat
Re-read it: probably
Recommend: yes
Star rating: four out of five
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