Everything under / Daisy Johnson.
Momo rauemi: TextKaiwhakaputa: Leicester : Thorpe, Isis, 2020Edition: Large print editionWhakaahuatanga: 300 pages (large print) ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781785417115
- 1785417118
Momo tuemi | Tauwāhi onāianei | Kohinga | Tau karanga | Tūnga | Rā oti | Waeherepae | Ngā puringa tuemi | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Large print | Waverley LibraryPlus Large print | Large print | JOHN (Tirotirohia te whatanga(Opens below)) | Wātea | i2198713 |
Tirotiro ana Waverley LibraryPlus Ngā whatanga, Shelving location: Large print, Collection: Large print Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)
As a child, Gretel lived on a canal boat with her mother, and together they invented a language that was just their own. She hasn't seen her mother since the age of sixteen, though - almost a lifetime ago - and those memories have faded. Now Gretel works as a lexicographer, updating dictionary entries, which suits her solitary nature. But a phone call from the hospital interrupts Gretel's isolation and throws up questions from long ago. She begins to remember the private vocabulary of her childhood. She remembers other things, too: the strange lonely boy who came to stay on the boat one winter; and the creature in the water - a canal thief? - swimming upstream, getting ever closer. In the end, there will be nothing for Gretel to do but go back...
There are no comments on this title.