β Scribed by Pauline Holdstock
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
After spending a night with his mother's dead body, a six-year-old boy stows away on an ocean liner.
Sometimes I forget that MyMum is dead. But that is probably better than remembering.
When Frankieβs mother dies, the six-year-old comes up with a plan: go to France, find a police station, and ask the officers to ring his fatherβand so begins Giller-nominated Pauline Holdstockβs eighth novel. Narrated in turns by Frankie, who likes cheese, numbers, the sea when itβs pink and βsmooth like counting,β and being alone when he feels bad, and a cast of characters that includes his Gran and his father, Here I Am! is a mesmerizing story about innocence lost and found.
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