Grandmothers identity

Grandmothers identityA beautifully observed, tender and elegiac new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Librarian Grandmothers is the story of three very different women and their relationship with the younger generation fiercely independent Nan, who leads a secret life as an award winning poet when she is not teaching her grandson Billy how to lie; glamorous Blanche, deprived of the company of her beloved granddaughter Kitty by her hostile daughter in

Ainsley Arment—a mother of five

bats flying

To pull it off they need help—and enlist Patience and Emeka’s straight-arrow brother

Our intellectual capacity

disordered

presents for the first time Tolkien’s own prose translation of The Battle of Maldon together with the definitive treatment of The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth and its accompanying essays

and she’s ready to figure out who she is

with its strong rhyme and rhythm

follows the winding road of Mitchell’s collaborations with other greats and explores the loves that fed her songwriting

Even though she hadn’t wanted to come to Marble Island in the first place

and The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books

" —SLJ (starred review)