4.5
Fantasy & SciFi
A whimsical, touching debut about loneliness, friendship, and hope
Vivian doesn’t feel like she fits in—and never has. As a child, she was so whimsical that her parents told her she was “left by fairies. ” Now, she is living alone in Dublin, where the neighbors treat her like she’s crazy, her older sister condescends to her, social workers seem to have registered her as troubled, and she hasn’t a friend in the world.
So, she decides it’s time to change her life: She begins by advertising for a friend. Not just any friend. She wants one named Penelope.
Meanwhile, she roams the city, mapping out a new neighborhood every day, seeking her escape route to a better world, the other world her parents told her she came from.
And then one day someone named Penelope answers her ad for a friend. And from that moment on, Vivian’s life begins to change.
Debut author Caitriona Lally offers readers an exhilaratingly fresh take on the Irish love for lyricism, humor, and inventive wordplay in a book that is, in itself, deeply charming, and deeply moving.
© 2017 Blackstone Publishing (Luisterboek): 9781538423073
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 13 juni 2017
4.5
Fantasy & SciFi
A whimsical, touching debut about loneliness, friendship, and hope
Vivian doesn’t feel like she fits in—and never has. As a child, she was so whimsical that her parents told her she was “left by fairies. ” Now, she is living alone in Dublin, where the neighbors treat her like she’s crazy, her older sister condescends to her, social workers seem to have registered her as troubled, and she hasn’t a friend in the world.
So, she decides it’s time to change her life: She begins by advertising for a friend. Not just any friend. She wants one named Penelope.
Meanwhile, she roams the city, mapping out a new neighborhood every day, seeking her escape route to a better world, the other world her parents told her she came from.
And then one day someone named Penelope answers her ad for a friend. And from that moment on, Vivian’s life begins to change.
Debut author Caitriona Lally offers readers an exhilaratingly fresh take on the Irish love for lyricism, humor, and inventive wordplay in a book that is, in itself, deeply charming, and deeply moving.
© 2017 Blackstone Publishing (Luisterboek): 9781538423073
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 13 juni 2017
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Celine
30 mrt 2021
Ingedeeld onder fantasy, maar geen fantasy boek. Er is weinig plot, maar je volgt de innerlijke wereld van bijzonder iemand die altijd was verteld dat ze een changeling is. Het boek bevat echter geen feeën, elven of magie.
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