The Granny Project
$21.18
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
1 September 2006
Summary
A hilarious black comedy about three generations of the same family living together, vintage humour from multi-award-winning author Anne Fine.
“What does he mean? What’s going on? Are you two thinking of putting Granny into a Home?”
“Thinking is finished,” Natasha told him. “It is decided.”
The four children, Ivan, Sophie, Tanya and Nicholas, can’t believe it. Their parents are planning to put their grandmother into a Home. She’s a bit of a dotty old lady - sometimes d…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780552554381 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0552554383 |
| Author: | Anne Fine |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Children's UK |
| Imprint: | Corgi Childrens |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2006 |
| Weight: | 159g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 14mm |
| Audience Age: | 9-11 |
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Crisp, funny and satirical
Crisp, funny and satirical * Guardian *
Clever, funny and thoughtful * Times Literary Supplement *
Both audacious and heartwarming * New Statesman *
An incisive look at an emotional issue – Mary Arrigan * The Sunday Tribune *
About The Author
Anne Fine
Anne Fine has been an acknowledged top author in the children’s book world since her first book was published in the mid l970s, and has now written more than forty books and won virtually every major award going, including the Carnegie Medal (more than once), the Whitbread Children’s Award, the Guardian Children’s Fiction Award, the Smarties Prize and others. The Children’s Laureate from 2001-2003, Anne is also very funny and young readers love her lack of hypocrisy about the family and her honesty about how people can behave. She lives in the North-East.
‘One of the sharpest and most humorous observers of the human condition writing today for the young’ - School Librarian
‘She is translated into 26 languages and has regularly won every major children’s literary award in the land, including the Carnegie Medal twice and the Whitbread Children’s Novel award twice … There are few more influential, or more unfailingly intelligent, authors at work’ - Scotsman
‘A subversively wicked gift for exploring family tensions’ - Independent
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