by Jenny Valentine · CRUÏLLA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466123143
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«Violet Park» is the young adult novel by Jenny Valentine, published by Cruïlla in paperback (224 pages, in Catalan).
A teenager finds an urn with the ashes of Violet Park, a woman unknown to him, and becomes determined to discover who she was. His investigation reconstructs Violet's life and reveals truths about his own family, including the secret of his father's disappearance. An intriguing and humorous quest that forces him to rethink his own life.
It is number 149 in the El Barco de Vapor Roja collection, with a Catalan translation by Josep Sampere i Martí and illustrations by Zulema Galeano Cossío; the original title is Finding Violet Park.
Young adult novel aimed at readers aged 11 to 16, with mystery, humor and self-discovery.
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.
