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- Book Synopsis
- One morning Apricot Jones wakes up to graffiti on her front door and a man in a black Jaguar who calls himself the Baglan Giant looking for her mum. Apricot wishes she were anywhere else, maybe heading over the horizon for a new life! But her best friend Charlie knows she will always be here, cleaning up the mess the others leave behind. Set between the Sandfields estate and the sea's edge, and structured by the omnipresent steelworks, this is a darkly comic tale of what it means to be alive, seventeen and living in Port Talbot. A postcard to the love-hate relationship between best friends, and the love-hate relationship with your hometown. The tidal pull and push of family ties and dreams of escape. A darkly comic first YA novel from the author of The Shark Caller and The Song Walker (shortlisted for the Carnegie 2024)
- About The Author
- Zillah Bethell was born in Papua New Guineaand came to the UK when she was eight. She read English at Wadham College, Oxford and lives in south Wales with her family. Zillah has published three adult novels on subjects ranging from depression to the Paris communes and artist Gwen John. Her work for children includes four middle-grade novels: A Whisper of Horses, The Extraordinary Colours of Auden Dare, The Shark Caller (shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Award) and The Song Walker (shortlisted for the Yoto Carnegie Medal 2024)
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- ISBN
- 9781915444844
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Firefly Press, (06 March 2025)
- Number of Pages
- 160
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 129 mm
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