Amber’s Secret - Rilegato

Pilling, Ann

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ISBN 10: 0001857274 ISBN 13: 9780001857278

Casa editrice: HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks, 2000

Riassunto

It is 1953, Coronation year, and Sally finds herself having to stay with her crabby old nextdoor neighbour. Her mum’s seriously ill in hospital, her dad’s abroad, and her brother is doing his National Service, and when the grandfather clock breaks into a million pieces, her life goes terribly wrong...

AMBER’S SECRET is the story of a young girl’s struggle to mend her mother’s favourite grandfather clock – if she can’t mend it, she believes her mother won’t get better. Her gypsy friend, Amber, has told her a secret which Sally is determined to use to help against seemingly impossible odds. The people she meets and the friends she makes – especially with the wonderful old man, Charlie, the clock maker – will engage every child’s imagination, and Sally’s conviction that her mother will die if she can’t get the clock mended, keep one turning the pages of this delightful story to the very end.

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Recensione:

Ann Pilling won the Guardian Award for Henry’s Leg (Puffin). Her writing is strong and atmospheric and her sense of time and place is second to none.

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“A marvellously powerful book.”
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L'autore:

Ann Pilling was brought up in Warrington, Cheshire and many of her books are set in the industrial North West. After reading English at London University, she taught in Buckinghamshire, then spent time in America before returning to England and settling eventually in Oxford. She is married with two sons. Ann has been writing books for children since 1983.

Whenever possible, Ann retreats to the Yorkshire Dales which she calls ‘the country of my heart’.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0001857274
• ISBN 13: 9780001857278
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 192