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My Sister Lives on The Mantelpiece

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My sister Rose lives on the mantelpiece.rnWell, some of her does.rnA collarbone, two ribs, a bit of skull, and a little toe.rnrnTo ten-year-old Jamie, his family has fallen apart because of the loss of someone he barely remembers: his sister Rose, who died five years ago in a terrorist bombing. To his father, life is impossible to make sense of when he lives in a world that could so cruelly take away a ten-year-old girl. To Rose's surviving fifteen year old twin, Jas, everyday she lives in Rose's ever present shadow, forever feeling the loss like a limb, but unable to be seen for herself alone.rnrnTold with warmth and humor, this powerful novel is a sophisticated take on one family's struggle to make sense of the loss that's torn them apart... and their discovery of what it means to stay together.

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Call Number

F PIT m

Publisher

New York : Little, Brown and Company., 2012

Collation

211 p.; 21 cm.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780316176897

Classification

F

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Subject(s)

England - Fiction
Family problems - Fiction
Grief - Fiction

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