Dear Nobody

Doherty, Berlie

ISBN 10: 0241130565 / ISBN 13: 9780241130568

Published by Hamish Hamilton Ltd, London, 1991

About this Item

Signed by the author on the front free endpaper with a dedication - the ink has run a little on the dedication. Someone else has added a gift message at the bottom of this page. Slight edge wear to boards and light browning to the page edges. The jacket has heavy fading to the spine and the outer areas of the front and rear panels. Chipping at the top and bottom of the spine and rubbing to the corners. Carnegie Medal label on front of jacket. First printing. Seller Inventory # 008599

Bibliographic Details

Title: Dear Nobody

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Ltd, London

Publication Date: 1991

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Good

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

Eighteen-year-old Chris and his girlfriend Helen struggle to cope with two shocks that change their relationship and their plans for the future; the discovery that Helen is pregnant and the reappearance of Chris's mother who left the family when he was ten.

About the Author:

Berlie Doherty is the author of numerous books for children and young adults. She has won the prestigious Carnegie Medal twice -- for Granny Was a Buffer Girl and for Dear Nobody -- and in 1994 Willa and Old Miss Annie was highly commended for the Carnegie Medal. Ms. Doherty began writing tales even before she went to school and at age eight was earning boxes of chocolates and boxes of paints from the local newspapers for her stories and poems. She lives in England.