EAN: 9781529064575

THE ATTIC CHILD - LOLA JAYE KARTONIERT (TB)

Two children trapped in the same attic  almost a century apart  bound by a secret. 1907:
Twelve-year-old Celestine spends most of his time locked in an attic room of a large house by
the sea. Taken from his homeland and treated as an unpaid servant  he dreams of his family in
Africa even if  as the years pass  he struggles to remember his mother's face  and sometimes
his real name . . . Almost a century later  Lowra  a young orphan girl born into wealth and
privilege  will find herself banished to the same attic. Lying under the floorboards of the
room is an old porcelain doll  an unusual beaded claw necklace and  most curiously  a sentence
etched on the wall behind an old cupboard  written in an unidentifiable language. Artefacts
that will offer her a strange kind of comfort  and lead her to believe that she was not the
first child to be imprisoned there . . . A hauntingly powerful  emotionally charged and unique
dual-narrative novel about family secrets  love and loss  identity and belonging  seen through
the lens of Black British History.

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