Saffy's Angel
$18.80
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
29 June 2021
Summary
Saffy’s Angel was the winner of the 2002 Whitbread Award and is the first novel in Hilary McKay’s hilarious Casson Family series.
After Saffron discovers that she’s adopted, life is never quite the same. Her artistic parents and doting siblings adore her, but Saffy wants a piece of her past. So when her grandfather bequests her a stone angel - a relic from the childhood she never knew - Saffy knows she has to find it. Realizing that Siena holds the key, she stows away on a car trip to…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529033212 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529033217 |
| Author: | Hilary McKay |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Macmillan Children's Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 29 June 2021 |
| Weight: | 172g |
| Dimensions: | 15mm x 133mm x 204mm |
| Series: | Casson Family |
| Audience Age: | 9-11 |
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Critics Review
This book truly is a masterpiece.
This book truly is a masterpiece. * Guardian *
Marvellous * The Sunday Telegraph *
I love this book. I still wish I’d written it – Sally Nichols, Books for Keeps
If there is one single writer whose style and voice I wish I could capture and make mine, it’s Hilary McKay – Elizabeth Wein, author of Code Name Verity
A funny, exuberant story * Carousel *
A real feel-good novel, McKay treats us once again to one of her brilliantly characterised families. This is a really lovely book * The Bookseller *
A funny and perceptive novel … a real delight to read * The Parents’ Guide *
A tale that is both funny and touching * Guardian *
Saffy’s Angel is a delight from start to finish … with characters you want to stay with forever. Warm, beautifully crafted and always original, it’s pure fun – a book to recommend without hesitation – The Whitbread judges, as reported in The Daily Mail
Hilary McKay
Hilary McKay won the Costa Children’s Book Award for The Skylarks’ War, the Guardian Fiction Prize for The Exiles, and the Smarties and the Whitbread Award for The Exiles in Love and Saffy’s Angel respectively. Hilary McKay’s Fairy Tales was her first book with Macmillan Children’s Books and is a critically acclaimed collection of clever retellings.
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