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Meet Jesika, aged four and a half. The most extraordinary narrator of 2018. She lives in a flat with her mother and baby brother and she knows a lot. She knows their flat is high up and the stairs are smelly. She knows she shouldn't draw on the peeling wallpaper or touch the broken window. And...
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Meet Jesika, aged four and a half. The most extraordinary narrator of 2018.
She lives in a flat with her mother and baby brother and she knows a lot. She knows their flat is high up and the stairs are smelly. She knows she shouldn't draw on the peeling wallpaper or touch the broken window. And she knows she loves her mummy and baby brother Toby.
She does not know that their landlord is threatening to evict them and that Toby’s cough is going to get much worse. Or that Paige, her new best friend, has a secret that will explode their world.
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Format: kindle
ASIN: B0711H3P19
Publish date: 2018-02-08
Publisher: Transworld Digital
Pages no: 348
Edition language: English
I was bowled over by this book; the debut novel by a talented author. Narrated by four-year-old Jesika, I could totally imagine her voice, and her child-like take on events was so endearing.She and her mother live in substandard housing, in a poor neighbourhood, but Jesika loves her baby brother Tob...
[I received a copy of this book through NetGalley. ]This started as a bit of an annoying read, due to the ‘child voice’ narrating it—it wasn’t so easy for me to get into it. Jesika is a difficult narrator to contend with, in that, on top of being unreliable because she sees the world through her own...
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