A grieving mother finds solace from her son's death in a relationship that quickly blurs the line between friendship and intimacy Susan Kelly's stylish, poignant newnovel portrays a year in the life of a woman after the accidental death of her teenage son. Laura Lucas is numbed by the loss, a loss t
Alice by Accident
โ Scribed by Banks, Lynne Reid
- Book ID
- 110305977
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 962 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780007143870
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โฆ Synopsis
Nine-year-old Alice must write about herself for a school assignment, and in doing so, she sorts out her feelings about her somewhat prickly single mother, the father she has never met, her flamboyant paternal grandmother and the rest of her sometimes confusing life. Alice doesn't see how she can write her life story as a class assignment.. How can she fit nine years into a couple of pages? Her pets have died and the only family she has is her mother. Until recently she had a beloved interfering grandmother Gene but she's gone from Alice's life. Besides, Alice discovered ages ago she was born by accident, and that's the sort of private thing you don't write about for school. Alice does the assignment but she thinks it's boring, until she discovers a need to write about her true life the exciting, complicated and private of her life. She writes how Gene came along, how she changed Alice's life, making it richer in experience but also more complicated. She records ongoing...
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