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Street girl Romany is caught up in an Indian romance with the once-bookish Ty - but what unspoken loss makes the icy Himalayas so irresistible to him? - and Kate journeys to the Norfolk coast where the sea-wist sounds beneath Frieda's outpost home. But disaster, death and mishap intervene - and, as the inextricable threads between the sisters tighten, they must rework their bond in the light of dark truths from their family's past.  From Tom the one-eyed urban tramp to Nyala who herds the buffalo grazing by her mountainside home ... Wist's engaging characters and rich, thought-provoking themes will delight and challenge. Jackie Gay writes with a rare spark, energy and sympathy; in Wist she offers a unique perspective on what can happen when 'the sky falls in on your head'.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49585514905873,"sku":"GOR004172132","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0954130340.jpg?v=1751363771"},{"product_id":"scapegrace-book-jackie-gay-9780953589517","title":"Scapegrace","description":"Scapegrace n. arch.: A mischievous or wayward person, especially a young person or child; a rascal. Five teenage girls who share everything: clothes, hopes, fears and secrets. But the world is changing as fast as the girls and the group fragments, stirring frightening but exhilarating forces. Gina is accused of arson, her brother Johnny of dealing drugs Rose frets over her awakening desires Alice is disturbed by mysterious spirits Cora flaunts her self recklessly, and Ellie knows there is more to growing up than all of this. 21 years later Alice, the centre of this group of 70s 'bad girls', gives up her struggle to conform and returns home. To find her lost friends, map her own identity and make sense of the intense heat she ran from all those years ago. Jackie Gay's first novel is a tenderly sardonic account of growing up in the wrong. 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There's Melody, more of a tart than a sophisticate, who escapes to sunshine with her teacher's baby; an unlikely wedding breakfast--shared peaches by the roadside on a bright June morning; two African sisters who are displaced to a 'little England' boarding school; and a teenage boy who catches sight of love while tending his grandmother's garden, among others. 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