[Bonnier Books Ltd]
Kategoria: Książki / Literatura obcojęzyczna
, honest, laugh and cry novel about growing up and leaving home,
only to find that you've taken it with you, Snowflake is a
novel for a generation, and for everyone who's taken those first,
terrifying...
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Wonderful' Roddy Doyle'Sparks with tender charm and humour . . .
Fresh, bleakly funny' Sunday Times'Sharp, clever and affecting' -
The Independent'GAS and beautiful and truthful and touching' Marian
Keyes, author of Grown Ups'A novel for anyone who's ever felt lost
in the world' John Boyne, author of The Heart's Invisible
Furies'Astonishing' Stacey Halls, author of The
FamiliarsEighteen-year-old Debbie White lives on a dairy farm with
her mother, Maeve, and her uncle, Billy. Billy sleeps out in a
caravan in the garden with a bottle of whiskey and the stars
overhead for company. Maeve spends her days recording her dreams,
which she believes to be prophecies.This world is Debbie's normal,
but she is about to step into life as a student at Trinity College
in Dublin. As she navigates between sophisticated new friends and
the family bubble, things begin to unravel. Maeve's eccentricity
tilts into something darker, while Billy's drinking gets worse.
Debbie struggles to cope with the weirdest, most difficult parts of
herself, her family and her small life. But the fierce love of the
White family is never in doubt, and Debbie discovers that even the
oddest of families are places of safety.A startling, honest, laugh
and cry novel about growing up and leaving home, only to find that
you've taken it with you, Snowflake is a novel for a generation,
and for everyone who's taken those first, terrifying steps towards
adulthood.
