White Oleander

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Penelope Lively's remarkable memoir of her colonial upbringing is a moving meditation on the perceptions, confusions and elusive joys of childhood. Astrid's fierce determination to survive and be loved makes her an unforgettable figure. Second-Hand Life for a young English girl growing up in Egypt is a hazy world of strange sights, sounds and smells: the stifling heat, the white and blue scented oleander and jacaranda, the waving sugar-cane, the dusty paths trodden by donkeys and barefoot village children, the grand shuttered houses, the snake-charmer in the garden, the broad, brown Nile itself. Everywhere hailed as a novel of rare beauty and power, White Oleander tells the unforgettable story of Ingrid, a brilliant poet imprisoned for murder, and her daughter, Astrid, whose odyssey through a series of Los Angeles foster homes--each its own universe, with its own laws, its own dangers, its own hard lessons to be learned--becomes a redeeming and surprising journey of self-discovery. White Oleander is a painfully beautiful first novel about a young girl growing up the hard way. 'Liquid poetry' - Oprah Winfrey 'Tangled, complex and extraordinarily moving' - Observer Mon: closedTue: 10am-6pmWed: 10am-6pmThu: 10am-9pmFri: 10am-9pmSat: 10am-6pm

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