Twelve-year-old Ben has always felt that he was born into the wrong body. When Mary, his therapist, suggests hypnosis as a way to help him understand why he doesn't identify as a boy, Ben finds himself the unlikely conduit for a herring girl called Annie, who lived over a century earlier in the same
Herring Girl
β Scribed by Taylor, Debbie
- Book ID
- 110443854
- Publisher
- Oneworld Publications
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- en-GB
- Weight
- 2 MB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
Set in a Tyneside fishing village,Β Herring GirlΒ moves effortlessly between 1898 and 2007 as twelve-year-old Ben finds himself the unlikely conduit for Annie, a herring girl who lived β and died β a century earlier.Β As Ben tries to unravel the puzzle of Annie's death, he is drawn irresistibly into her long-vanished world.
Bringing the startling story of Annie's life and curious death vividly to life, this brilliantly realised historical mystery introduces a cast of unforgettable characters,Β and reveals how the secrets of our past are never too far away.
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