The Red Shoe - Softcover

Dubosarsky, Ursula

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1406358746 ISBN 13: 9781406358742

Verlag: Walker Books Ltd, 2015

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A beautifully written story about an ordinary family living in the Northern Beaches of Sydney during the 1950s.

A beautifully written story about an ordinary family living in the Northern Beaches of Sydney during the 1950s, against the backdrop of such world events as the Cold War and the threat of the H bomb, the unrest in Indo China and the high profile case of KGB defector Vladimir Petrov. The story is chronicled by six-year-old Matilda, who sees but doesn't understand what is going on around her. Her sister Frances is troubled by the death of a friend, their sister Elizabeth, who decides she will not to return to school, becomes obsessed with reading the newspaper. Their father is often away and when he is, Uncle Paul seems always to be around. Mysterious people move in next door and one day, when she is at the pictures, Matilda notices that the Russian man in the newsreel looks just like one of the new neighbours. A novel that works on many levels, this is nothing short of Ursula Dubosarsky writing at the height of her powers.

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Ursula Dubosarsky wanted to be a writer from an early age, and is now the author of over twenty books for children and teenagers. She has won several national literacy awards in her native Australia and her work is published around the world. She lives in Sydney with her family.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Walker Books Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1406358746
• ISBN 13: 9781406358742
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192
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