by Jenny Valentine · Alberdania · tapa dura · ISBN 9788498680348
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«Violet Park-en bidetik» is the young adult novel by Jenny Valentine, published by Alberdania in hardcover (222 pages, in Basque).
Lucas Swain, a sixteen-year-old Londoner, finds a urn with the ashes of Violet Park, an elderly woman he never knew, one night in a taxi office. Convinced that the woman wants to communicate with him, Lucas follows the traces he finds until he embarks on a journey that leads him to know himself better and to clarify what became of his father, who disappeared some time ago.
It is part of Alberdania's Ostiral saila collection (no. 29), with a translation by Íñigo Errasti Aranbarri. The original work, Finding Violet Park, won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize in 2007.
For readers aged 12 and up, especially those looking for young adult mystery stories with emotional weight.
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.
