by Jenny Valentine · Harper Fire · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780007291243
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«Finding Violet Park» is the young adult novel by Jenny Valentine, published by Harper Fire in paperback (208 pages, in English).
Lucas Swain, a sixteen-year-old boy, finds a forgotten urn of ashes in a taxi office and becomes convinced that Violet Park, its owner, is trying to communicate with him. After taking the urn, his search turns into a journey of self-discovery that forces him to confront the mystery of his absent father and his own family history.
First novel by Jenny Valentine, winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and nominated for the Carnegie Medal.
For young readers aged 13 and up and for those seeking novels of mystery and personal growth.
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.
