Drawing with Light - Softcover

Green, Julia

3.77

301 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1408819570 ISBN 13: 9781408819579

Publisher: Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2012

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Kat and Emily have grown up without their mother for almost as long as they can remember. And now Dad is with Cassy and they all muddle along together well enough - even though they are living in a cramped caravan while their new house is being renovated. Then Cassy and Dad tell them that Cassy is pregnant, and everything seems to shift. Emily feels a new urge to find her own mother. How could she have left them the way she did? Never writing to them? Not communicating with them? And as Emily begins her search, not knowing what she will find, she is at the same time embarking on a new relationship of her own, that of her romance with Seb . . .

An evocative and finely drawn novel about family relationships, in particular that of mother and daughter, and the shifting emotions of a teenager trying to make sense of her family and her world.

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About the Author:

Julia Green is the main tutor for the MA in Creative Writing for Young People at Bath Spa University, and has had three novels published by Puffin. This is her second novel for Bloomsbury, her first being Breathing Underwater. Julia lives in Bath.

Review:

Julia Green is a writer to watch * David Almond * Praise for Breathing Underwater: Excellent story . . . from an author who, notably, has written unpatronisingly and sensitively about teenagers' feelings * The Bookseller * Never has that sun-soaked, salt-crusted sense of teenage summer well-being been better described * Guardian * The book's chief strength is its convincing depiction of Emily herself, and the inner turmoil which matches that of her world . . . Teenage girls will enjoy the book because of Emily, in whose character and life they will find much that is both familiar and eye-opening * School Librarian *

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