Family Photographs

Fabulous Fantoras #2

by Adèle Geras

Ozzy the cat relates the further adventures of this unusual family, in which Bianca can bring things to life, Marco can make himself invisible, and Francesca can change the weather.

152 pages, Paperback

First published October 28, 1993

About the author

Adèle Geras FRSL (born 15 March 1944) is an English writer for young children, teens and adults. Her husband was the Marxist academic Norman Geras and their daughter Sophie Hannah is also a novelist and poet.

Geras was born in Jerusalem, British Mandatory Palestine. Her father was in the Colonial Service and she had a varied childhood, living in countries such as Nigeria, Cyprus, Tanzania, Gambia and British North Borneo in a short span of time. She attended Roedean School in Brighton and then graduated from St Hilda's College, Oxford with a degree in Modern Languages. She was known for her stage and vocal talents, but decided instead to become a full-time writer.

Geras's first book was Tea at Mrs Manderby's, which was published in 1976. Her first full-length novel was The Girls in the Velvet Frame. She has written more than 95 books for children, young adults, and adults. Her best-known books are Troy (shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize and Highly Commended for the Carnegie Medal) Ithaka, Happy Ever After (previously published as the Egerton Hall Trilogy), Silent Snow, Secret Snow, and A Thousand Yards of Sea.

Her novels for adults include: Facing the Light, Hester's Story, Made in Heaven, and A Hidden Life.

Geras won two prizes in the United States, one the Sydney Taylor Book Award for the My Grandmother's Stories and the National Jewish Book Award for Golden Windows. She has also won prizes for her poetry and was a joint winner of the Smith Doorstop Poetry Pamphlet Award, offered by the publisher of that name.

(from Wikipedia)

Reviews

[Willen P · Rating 2 out of 5]

I wasn't that impressed compared to the first one, but it was nice to see what the wacky family were up to.

[Catherine · Rating 4 out of 5]

The sequel to The Fantora Family Files is another fun read by Adele Geras. The family are due back from a holiday, and while he waits, Ozymandias (or Ozzy for short) the cat narrator, is looking at photographs on the stair wall and telling us (the reader) the stories behind some of them. A very satisfying read with a great conclusion which Master 7 and I thoroughly enjoyed.

[Soobie has fog in her brain · Rating 3 out of 5]

Soobie a 13 anni:

Bel libro. Molto divertente. Ozzy il gatto dei Fantore riccice alcuni dei momenti della vita della famiglia. Un viaggio all'ostello. Un corso di danza. Una divertente giornata in [...piscina?], il [...pazzo?] [...lavoro?] di Rosie, la partita di cricket e il matrimonio di Zia Varvara.