Poppy has graduated from picture books into these reassuring, well-observed, read-alone stories about the nature of friendship and a small girl's hopes and fears

"a bitter-sweet, piercing account of a childhood in Borneo"

'The beauty of the book is the subtlety and the insightful way the bigger picture of the after effects of the war and the colonial experience are interwoven into the portrait of a growing girl'

'A richly atmospheric tale. . . Geras conveys the intensity of childhood experience with great skill . . . '

'Beautifully crafted'

The book was very good and sad in places

Two worlds conflate in this evocative and moving novel about the healing power of memory.

Geras conveys well the difficulties of relating to a colonial community and being the new child...

This is a substantial novel suitable for readers of 13+

Bright and very descriptive . . .this book will stay with you forever

It has a slightly slow start but soon you will be glued to the covers

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