EAN: 9781786581709

SNOWFLAKE - LOUISE NEALON KARTONIERT (TB)

Wonderful' Roddy Doyle  'Sparks with tender charm and humour . . . Fresh  bleakly funny' Sunday
Times  'Sharp  clever and affecting' - The Independent  'GAS and beautiful and truthful and
touching' Marian Keyes  author of Grown Ups  'A novel for anyone who's ever felt lost in the
world' John Boyne  author of The Heart's Invisible Furies  'Astonishing' Stacey Halls  author
of The Familiars    Eighteen-year-old Debbie White lives on a dairy farm with her mother  Maeve
and her uncle  Billy. Billy sleeps out in a caravan in the garden with a bottle of whiskey and
the stars overhead for company. Maeve spends her days recording her dreams  which she believes
to be prophecies.    This world is Debbie's normal  but she is about to step into life as a
student at Trinity College in Dublin. As she navigates between sophisticated new friends and
the family bubble  things begin to unravel. Maeve's eccentricity tilts into something darker 
while Billy's drinking gets worse. Debbie struggles to cope with the weirdest  most difficult
parts of herself  her family and her small life. But the fierce love of the White family is
never in doubt  and Debbie discovers that even the oddest of families are places of safety.   
A startling  honest  laugh and cry novel about growing up and leaving home  only to find that
you've taken it with you  Snowflake is a novel for a generation  and for everyone who's taken
those first  terrifying steps towards adulthood.

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