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The Taxi Driver's Daughter
The touching and wonderfully engaging second novel from the author of CROCODILE SOUP. It is late December and fifteen year old Caris is trying to hang an angel on a Christmas tree in a terraced street in Newcastle upon Tyne. She is interrupted by the arrival of the police who have come to the house to announce that her mother, Louise, has been caught stealing shoes in a de...more
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This is the story of Caris, a 15 year old whose life was turned upside down when her mother, Louise is caught shoplifiting and had to spend 3 months in prison. Her father Mack, a taxi driver tried to keep the family together but without Louise he was a little out of his depth. Having his drunken mother-in-law move in didn't help at all.
This story could have been better but it was an okay read.
This story could have been better but it was an okay read.
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Julia Darling was born in Winchester in 1956 in the house Jane Austen died in. She moved to Newcastle in 1980 and began her writing career as a poet, working with a performance group 'The Poetry Virgins' for many years, 'taking poetry to the places that least expected it'[citation needed].
In 1995 she published a book of short stories, Bloodlines with Panurge Press, and many of these st...more
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