The First Book of Calamity Leek - Softcover

Lichtarowicz, Paula

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099558777 ISBN 13: 9780099558774

Publisher: Windmill Books, 2014

Synopsis

Brilliantly inventive and original. This debut novel tells the story of Calamity Leek: a girl who has never been allowed beyond the garden wall, until now.

Lying in her hospital bed, broken, burned and scared, Calamity still believes that Aunty loved her. For as long as she can remember, Calamity, along with her sixteen sisters, lived in a Garden behind the Wall of Safekeeping. Like it said in Aunty's Appendix on the first page of the Ps: 'Everything has a purpose', and they were being trained for a very special one. In the Ns the Appendix said, 'Nosiness leads to nonsense'. As Calamity sees it, this is what led to their Garden's downfall, because when the sisters started questioning what was outside the Wall, they started questioning what was happening inside it too.

But doubt is contagious.
Watching your world crumble is frightening.
And people who are frightened can be dangerous.

About this title

About the Author:

Paula Lichtarowicz was born in Cheshire and studied English literature at Durham University and psychology at the University of London. When not writing, she makes television documentaries. She lives in Yorkshire. The First Book of Calamity Leek is her debut.

Review:

"Wonderfully strange." --Mark Haddon, New York Times bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

"A mash-up of Margaret Atwood and Roald Dahl." --Lady Magazine (UK)

"Hypnotic...As much a hymn to reading as a gripping story." --Elle

“Richly imagined...Rewards [readers] with the idiosyncratic voice and character of Calamity. Fans of the offbeat will dote on this sui generis story.” --Booklist

About this edition

• Publisher: Windmill Books
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0099558777
• ISBN 13: 9780099558774
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304