Wednesday's Child by Eloise Millar
Janet Roberts and her brother James are at the mercy of their father's foul mood swings, especially on Wednesdays, when he returns from his third nightshift of the week, angry and red-eyed, looking for trouble. But they can always lose themselves in Janet's stories of ghosts and gypsies, or go and visit their boozy Aunt Net, who welcomes them with open arms as long as they make a visit to the off licence first. Then, in the course of one summer on their Oxford council estate, everything changes. A young girl is found murdered in the park near their house. James disappears, Aunt Net goes off the rails, and Janet's mother is hospitalised. Janet is left to fight her battles alone, with only her quick wits and vivid imagination to help her through. In this affecting and spirited novel, Eloise Millar brings to life a community, a family and a valiant, lovable heroine. Wednesday's Child is a remarkable and original debut from an exciting new voice in fiction.
'Millar's great achievement is that by the end of the book you care about every character in it Millar's other great talent is for depicting childhood exactly as it is Any reader will enjoy this book and the way its spare, clear prose gives a window on to another world' TES'Millar creates a child's all-seeing, all-accepting world view and brings vividly before you the lives of people who have lost the will to change' TIMES'In this horribly believable account of a damaged childhood, Janet's resilience rescues us' Guardian'A gentle, magical tale, whose heroine will truly bewitch you' STAR'Millar establishes her own style in an accomplished debut that gives the reader as many chuckles as it does compassionate tears.' VENUE
Eloise Millar was born in Oxford and studied English at Cambridge University. She is currently at work on her second novel, for which she won an Arts Council grant, and which is set in seventeenth-century London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781844080915 |
| ISBN 10 | 1844080919 |
| Title | Wednesday's Child |
| Author | Eloise Millar |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2004-04-01 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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