It is set in London, among a family of means (they live in a house on “Chatsworth Square,” which the 12-year-old narrator says is rundown but “apparently quite valuable”). There is a pleasing mixture of the modern and the old-fashioned in “After Iris,” Natasha Farrant’s first middle-grade novel and her first book to be published in the United States. “And stop looking at everyone through that stupid camera.” “Stop creeping up on people!” exclaims her elder sister, Flora. OL18823238W Page_number_confidence 92.81 Pages 294 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.17 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20200716203752 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 506 Scandate 20200629044216 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780142426913 Tts_version 4.Bluebell Gadsby is the kind of heroine who brings to mind Cassandra Mortmain in “I Capture the Castle” or Harriet the Spy: awkward, lonely and always off to one side, scribbling, or - in the latest iteration of the teenage journal - filming. Blue poignantly captures her family’s trials and tribulations from fragmented to fully dysfunctional to ultimately reunited, in a sequence of film transcripts and diary entries that will make you cry, laugh, and give thanks for the gift of familiesĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 16:09:07 Boxid IA1873920 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Enter Zoran the Bosnian male au pair and Joss the troublemaking boy next door, and life for the Gadsby family takes a turn for the even more chaotic.
Her histrionic older sister, Flora, changes her hair color daily her younger siblings, Jasmine and Twig, are completely obsessed with their pet rats and both of her parents spend weeks away from home-and each other. Blue Gadsby’s twin sister, Iris, died three years ago and her family has never been the same.
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