The First Day of Spring de Nancy Tucker

Date de parution : 02.2022
Format : Broché
Nombre de pages : 400
Résumé : *DISCOVER THE YEAR'S MOST PAGE-TURNING THRILLER AND THE GUARDIAN 2021 BEST CRIME AND THRILLER PICK* 'Gorgeously written' PANDORA SYKES 'I loved this book' CLARE MACKINTOSH 'A darkly dazzling debut . . . gripping' LISA JEWELL 'Sharp-edged and highly discussable' BOOKLIST ___________ 'So that was all it took,' I thought. 'That was all it took for me to feel like I had all the power in the world. One morning, one moment, one yellow-haired boy. It wasn't so much after all.' Chrissie knows how to steal sweets from the shop without getting caught, the best hiding place for hide-and-seek, the perfect wall for handstands. Now she has a new secret. It gives her a fizzing, sherbet feeling in her belly. She doesn't get to feel power like this at home, where food is scarce and attention scarcer. Fifteen years later, Julia is trying to mother her five-year-old daughter, Molly. She is always worried - about affording food and school shoes, about what the other mothers think of her. Most of all sh...