Description
| Product ID: | 9781509801879 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Life on the Refrigerator Door |
| Authors: | Author: Alice Kuipers |
| Page Count: | 240 |
| Subjects: | Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction, General fiction (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Families and family members, Personal & social issues: family issues (Children's / Teenage), Interest age: from c 12 years |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A simultaneously heartbreaking and heart-warming novel by Alice Kuipers. <p><i>Mom, </i><br><br> <i>I went to the store. See inside the fridge. I watered the plants. I cleaned out Peter's cage. I tidied the sitting room. And the kitchen. And I did the washing up. </i><br><br> <i>I'm going to bed. </i><br><br> <i>Your live-in servant, </i><br><br> <i>Claire </i><br><br> <i>Life on the Refrigerator Door </i>is told exclusively through notes exchanged by Claire and her mother, Elizabeth, during the course of a life-altering year. Their story builds to an emotional crescendo when Elizabeth is diagnosed with breast cancer.<br><br> Stunningly sad but ultimately uplifting, this is a clever, moving, and original portrait of the relationship between a daughter and mother. It is about how we live our lives constantly rushing, and never making time for those we love. It is also an elegy to how much can be said in so few words, if only we made the time to say them.<br><br>A new edition of this simultaneously heartbreaking and heart-warming novel by Alice Kuipers.</p> |
| Imprint Name: | Macmillan Children's Books |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2015-07-30 |
