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Breathing Underwater

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Format: Paperback
Library Classification: Junior Fiction
BIC Subjects: Fiction
Audience: Young adult
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication Date: 1/06/2012
Place of Publication: United Kingdom

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Freya has come to visit her grandparents who live on a remote island. Last year she visited them with her brother - but last year her brother died alone in a boating accident. Whilst back on the island, Freya finds a way, with the calming presence of her grandparents and the gentle care and attention of the people around her, to adjust to the fact that her brother has gone, and that life - and love - are still vibrantly in the air. A perfect coming of age for any young girl just tipping into teenhood. Ages 12+.

'Excellent story ... from an author who, notably, has written unpatronisingly and sensitively about teenager's feelings' The Bookseller 'Tremendously moving ... there's a real romantic animism about the book that will appeal greatly to teenage girls ... both thought-provoking and reassuring, and it comes very much recommended by me' thebookbag.co.uk 'Elegiacally, and with great pathos and skill, Green charts a girl's passage from innocence to experience, from grief to acceptance' Financial Times 'The strong sense of place and season, together with Freya's own burgeoning sense of self, gives the book its unique flavour ... Never has that sun-soaked, salt-crusted sense of teenage summer well-being been better described' Mary Hoffman, Guardian

Title: Breathing Underwater
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Contributors: By (author) Julia Green

ISBN 13: 9781408819555
ISBN 10: 1408819554

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication Date: 1/06/2012
Place of Publication: London, United Kingdom
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BIC Subjects: Fiction
Dewey Classification: 823.92 (DC23)
NBS Classification: Young Adult Fiction

Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Thickness: 14mm
Weight: 454g

Reader Age: From 12