Yuki chan in Bronte Country

Hardback

Main Details

Title Yuki chan in Bronte Country
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Mick Jackson
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:240
Dimensions(mm): Height 222,Width 143
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9780571329793
ClassificationsDewey:823.92
Audience
General
Edition Main

Publishing Details

Publisher Faber & Faber
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publication Date 21 January 2016
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

'Unconventional, highly readable, often very funny and strangely touching ... it's the kind of book you can't stop reading but don't want to finish.' Sue Gaisford, Financial Times The new novel from Mick Jackson, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Underground Man and Ten Sorry Tales 'They both stop and stare for a moment. Yuki feels she's spent about half her adult life thinking about snow, but when it starts, even now, it's always arresting, bewildering. Each snowflake skating along some invisible plane. Always circuitous, as if looking for the best place to land...' Yukiko tragically lost her mother ten years ago. After visiting her sister in London, she goes on the run, and heads for Haworth, West Yorkshire, the last place her mother visited before her death. Against a cold, winter, Yorkshire landscape, Yuki has to tackle the mystery of her mother's death, her burgeoning friendship with a local girl, the allure of the Brontes and her own sister's wrath.

Author Biography

Mick Jackson is the prize winning author of the novels, The Underground Man, Five Boys and The Widow's Tale. He also published, with the illustrator David Roberts, two acclaimed curiosities, Ten Sorry Tales and Bears of England.