false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1188201707m/1779208.jpg 1779208 2 "As memorable first lines go, 'When I was 13, my father killed my mother' is right up there with the best of them, and the rest of Charles Lambert's debut novel doesn't fail to live up to that promising beginning. Losing both parents through this tragedy, Carol is sent to live with her mother's sister, Margot, who can barely stand the sight of her. She has a predictably delinquent adolescence, as she desperately seeks love wherever she can find it. She's saved from disaster by the kindness and affection of her uncle, Joey, a patient and tolerant man with an abiding passion for building gliders. The story flips between this narrative, set in the Sixties, and Italy in the present, where Carol and Joey are lovers; he a successful sculptor, she a volunteer at a refugee camp. But when Carol becomes obsessed with an orphaned Kurdish girl the same age as she was when she lost her own home, the life she and Joey have built together begins to unravel. Beautifully written and crafted, and more compelling than many thrillers, Lambert's book puts the reader right in the head of a teenage girl; quite an achievement for a 53-year-old man." The Daily Mail (14 March 2008) 1777921 7 3 2008 Little Monsters total:22|5:12|4:4|3:5|2:1|1:0| 22 93 104 9 5 7 false false Fri May 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri May 09 11:24:33 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 16 14:21:35 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Mar 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Feb 23 05:27:40 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 25 05:49:27 -0700 2009
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