St Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
Author: Russell, Karen
ISBN: 9780099507321
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 15 Aug 2008
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback / softback
These ten extraordinary stories introduce a blazingly original voice, a stunning debut, a breathtaking discovery.
Longlisted for the Guardian first book award.
Charting loss, love, and the difficult art of growing up, these stories unfurl with wicked humour and insight. Two young boys make midnight trips to a boat graveyard in search of their dead sister, who set sail in the exoskeleton of a giant crab; a boy whose dreams foretell implacable tragedies is sent to 'Sleepaway Camp for Disordered Dreamers' (Cabin 1, Narcoleptics; Cabin 2, Insomniacs; Cabin 3, Somnambulists. . . ); a Minotaur leads his family on the trail out West, and finally, in the collection's poignant and hilarious title story, fifteen girls raised by wolves are painstakingly re-civilised by nuns.
ISBN: 9780099507321
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 15 Aug 2008
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback / softback
These ten extraordinary stories introduce a blazingly original voice, a stunning debut, a breathtaking discovery.
Longlisted for the Guardian first book award.
Charting loss, love, and the difficult art of growing up, these stories unfurl with wicked humour and insight. Two young boys make midnight trips to a boat graveyard in search of their dead sister, who set sail in the exoskeleton of a giant crab; a boy whose dreams foretell implacable tragedies is sent to 'Sleepaway Camp for Disordered Dreamers' (Cabin 1, Narcoleptics; Cabin 2, Insomniacs; Cabin 3, Somnambulists. . . ); a Minotaur leads his family on the trail out West, and finally, in the collection's poignant and hilarious title story, fifteen girls raised by wolves are painstakingly re-civilised by nuns.
