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Inchworm: No. 3
Author(s): Ann Kelley (Author)
- Publisher: Luath Press Ltd
- Publication Date: 6 Oct. 2008
- Language: English
- Print length: 224 pages
- ISBN-10: 1906307628
- ISBN-13: 9781906307622
Book Description
Gussie is a twelve year old girl from St. Ives in Cornwall. She is passionate about learning, wildlife, poetry, literature, and she wants to be a photographer when she grows up. But her dreams were put on hold as she struggled with a serious heart condition. Now she has got what she needed: a heart and lung transplant. But it isn’t working out quite the way she thought. Firstly she has to leave her beloved Cornwall to live in London and in the months following her operation she is unable to do very much except read and adopt a stray kitten, but she could do that when she was sick.She craves adventure and experience beyond her four walls, until, that is, she hits upon a plan – she is going to get her divorced parents to fall in love again. It’s not going to be easy, her mum is still dating her doctor boyfriend and despises Gussie’s father, who happens to be living with his new girlfriend – the Snow Queen. But Gussie is a determined girl and there is only one thing that could stop her now.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Through her (Gussie’s) affecting journal entries, readers will find themselves swept up in Gussie’s determination not only to come to terms with her troubled family, but to confront her own mortality. Gussie’s body may be weakened, but will her strong spirit be enough to help her make it through?” –TeenSpace “TeenSpace Cincinnati Library (http: //teenspace.cincinnatilibrary.org/books/newstuff.asp)”
Not many books around that you can give to anyone of any age and be sure of an appreciative audience, but Kelley does this beautifully in this, the third in the following the well-deserved Costa Category award for The Bower Bird. –Publishing News- Friday 27th June, 2008
She succeeds in underlining the fragility of life, but, more importantly, in celebrating the miraculous beauty of the world around us –Inis: The Childrens’s Books Ireland Magazine- Spring 2009
About the Author
Ann Kelley is a photographer and prize-winning poet who once nearly played cricket for Cornwall. She has previously published a collection of poetry and photographs, a book of photos of St Ives families and an audio book of cat stories. She lives with her husband and cats on the edge of a cliff in Cornwall where they have survived a flood, a landslip, a lightning strike and the roof blowing off.
