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With the ferocity of a mother tiger defending her cubs, fourteen-year-old Emmie Bean watches over her household: her amiable drunken father, her gaunt, evangelical old grandmother, her beautiful, wayward sister Alice and most precious of all, eight-year-old Oliver, who has the countenance of an angel and the ethical sense of a cobra. But with the arrival of new neighbours, the outside world intrudes into the isolated privacy of family life and Emmie's kingdom is no longer secure. Combining the guile of a young child with the desperation of adolescence, Emmie fights to stave off the changes- and the revelations- that growing up necessarily brings. Powerful, heart-rending, but never sentimental, Tortoise by Candlelight is a captivating excursion into the landscape of youth.
| ISBN-13 | 9781844084364 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1844084361 |
| Weight | 2.31 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 5.00 x 0.60 x 8.00 In |
| List Price | $20.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Language | English |
| Pages | 240 pages |
| Publisher | Little, Brown |
| Published On | 2006-11-02 |
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