Eleanor Updale(David Fickling Books) 9.21am: it is business as usual on the high Street in Heathwick, a typical English town. 9.22am: the high street is torn apart by several successive explosions.But what happened in that last minute? What circumstances have resulted in the tragedy that unfolds at 9.22am? Was is a gas leak, a plane …
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My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece
Annabel Pitcher(Orion) Five years ago, Jamie’s sister Rose was killed during a series of simultaneous terrorist attacks in London. Overcome by grief, the family has fallen apart: his mum has left the family for a man whom she has met at a victims’ support group, his dad does nothing but drink all day and Rose’s twin …
Before We Say Goodbye
Gabriela Ambrosio(Walker Books) “This is no life. Sooner or later it must finish.”One spring morning in 2002, in Jerusalem. As the city awakes, two teenage girls are already on the go. Myriam, a Jewish girl, is off on the hill, walking off the sorrow of losing her best friend Michael in a suicide bomb in …