Janet Roberts and her brother James are at the mercy of their father’s foul mood swings, especially on Wednesdays, when he returns from his third nightshift of the week, angry and red-eyed, looking for trouble. But they can always lose themselves in Janet’s stories of ghosts and gypsies, or go and visit their boozy Aunt Net. Then, in the course of one summer, everything changes. A young girl is found murdered in the park near their house. James disappears, Aunt Net goes off the rails, and Janet’s mother is hospitalized. Janet is left to fight her battles alone, with only her quick wits and vivid imagination to see her through.
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'Millar's great achievement is that by the end of the book you care about every character in it...Millar's other great talent is for depicting childhood exactly as it is ... Any reader will enjoy this book and the way its spare, clear prose gives a window on
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Eloise Millar was born in Oxford and studied English at Cambridge University. She is currently at work on her second novel, Bleeding Heart Yard, for which she won an Arts Council grant, and which is set in seventeenth-century London. She lives in Oxford.
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