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Imprint: Doubleday
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Published: 08/02/2018
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ISBN: 9780857525314
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Length: 352 Pages
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Dimensions: 222mm x 32mm x 144mm
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Weight: 494g
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RRP: £12.99
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"Heart-stopping. A need to read novel." Kit de Waal, author of My Name is Leon
A brave, important, heart-breaking book." Emma Flint, author of Little Deaths
Meet Jesika, aged four and a half. The most extraordinary narrator of 2018.
She lives in a flat with her mother and baby brother and she knows a lot. She knows their flat is high up and the stairs are smelly. She knows she shouldn't draw on the peeling wallpaper or touch the broken window. And she knows she loves her mummy and baby brother Toby.
She does not know that their landlord is threatening to evict them and that Toby’s cough is going to get much worse. Or that Paige, her new best friend, has a secret that will explode their world.
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Imprint: Doubleday
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Published: 08/02/2018
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ISBN: 9780857525314
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Length: 352 Pages
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Dimensions: 222mm x 32mm x 144mm
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Weight: 494g
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RRP: £12.99
Reviews
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Powerfully brings home the fears of living life on the edge...a narrative rich in intimacy and immediacy...Berriman is a former primary school teacher, and her acute awareness of the child’s world, as well as the spot-on grinding details of poverty make this book wholly, painfully authentic...challenging but always compelling; for the entirety of the second half, I was desperate to rescue Jesika and her family.
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Comparisons to Room by Emma Donoghue are inevitable; however, while Room is a novel about one sick individual robbing a family of hope and dignity, Home tells the far more terrifying story of inequality in our society..Guardian
