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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.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Tortoise By Candlelight
• Author: Nina Bawden
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240
• EAN: 9781844084364
• ISBN: 1844084361
• ID: 01355564
• Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
• Weight: 286 g
• Dimensions: 204 × 132 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. November 2006

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