by Jenny Valentine · Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420474656
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«Busco a Violet Park» is the young adult mystery novel by Jenny Valentine, published by Alfaguara in paperback (224 pages, in Spanish).
Lucas, a teenager, finds a forgotten urn with the ashes of Violet Park, an old woman he never knew, in a taxi office. Convinced that the woman's spirit is trying to communicate with him, he follows his hunches to discover who she was and stumbles upon a secret that connects with the disappearance of his own father.
The work was originally published as «Finding Violet Park» and was translated into Spanish by Mercedes Núñez Salazar. The original won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize in 2007.
It is suitable reading for young people aged 14 and over who enjoy mysteries with a realistic background.
Jenny Valentine is an English children's novelist. For her first novel and best-known work, Finding Violet Park, she won the annual Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by a panel of British children's writers. Valentine lives in Glasbury-on-Wye, Wales with her husband singer/songwriter Alex Valentine, with whom she runs a health food shop in nearby Hay-on-Wye.
