Overview
A gorgeous, big-hearted debut novel of a young girl tackling the business of growing up while those around her try not to fall apart.
1988. 12-year-old Harper Richardson''s parents are divorced. Her mum got custody of her, the Mini, and five hundred tins of baked beans. Her dad got a mouldering cottage in a Midlands backwater village and default membership of the Lone Rangers single parents'' club. Harper got questionable dress sense, a zest for life, two gerbils, and her Chambers dictionary, and the responsibility of fixing her parents'' broken hearts...
Set against a backdrop of high hairdos and higher interest rates, pop music and puberty, divorce and death, What a Way to Go is a warm, wise and witty tale of one girl tackling the business of growing up while those around her try not to fall apart.
- | Author: Julia Forster
- | Publisher: Atlantic Books
- | Publication Date: Jan 05, 2017
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9781782397540
- | ISBN-10: 178239754X
