In the grimy London of 1935, eleven-year-old Dominic Walker has lost his voice. His mother is sick and his father’s unemployed. Rescue comes in the form of his Uncle Roo, who arrives to take him and his young sister, Marlo, to Cornwall. There, in a...
Corlie Roux’s farm life in South Africa is not easy: the Transvaal is beautiful, but it is also a harsh place where the heat can be so intense that the very raindrops sizzle. When her beloved father dies, she is left with a mother who is as devoted...
Told partially in correspondence, this literary novel is a tragic tale of love, loss, and the lies we choose to believe
Set in 1936 in Belgium and Ceylon, this story traces the development of an unlikely friendship between a youn...
A sharply observed, atmospheric story of displacement, disinheritance, and the lingering past September 1953: Barney Holland, 14 years old, is promised a fresh start when he is offered a place at a boarding school on a remote North Sea island. Instea...
Ana is not your typical teenager. She grew up in a tiny Mennonite colony in Bolivia, and her mother fled the colony when Ana was a young girl. Now Ana and her father have also fled, and Ana doesn't know why. She only knows that something was amiss in...