Yuki Chan In Bronte Country

Author: Mick Jackson

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  • : 9780571254255
  • : Faber Faber
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  • : December 2015
  • : 216mm X 135mm X 18mm
  • : United Kingdom
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  • : February 2016
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Barcode 9780571254255
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Description

'They both stop and stare for a moment. Yuki feels she's spent about half her adult life thinking about snow, but when it starts, even now, it's always arresting, bewildering. Each snowflake skating along some invisible plane. Always circuitous, as if looking for the best place to land...' Yukiko tragically lost her mother ten years ago. After visiting her sister in London, she goes on the run, and heads for Haworth, West Yorkshire, the last place her mother visited before her death. Against a cold, winter, Yorkshire landscape, Yuki has to tackle the mystery of her mother's death, her burgeoning friendship with a local girl, the allure of the Brontes and her own sister's wrath. Both a pilgrimage and an investigation into family secrets, Yuki's journey is the one she always knew she'd have to make, and one of the most charming and haunting in recent fiction.

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The new novel from Mick Jackson, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Underground Man and Ten Sorry Tales

Author description

Mick Jackson is the prize winning author of two novels, The Underground Man and Five Boys, described in the Sunday Times as 'vibrant, happily eccentric and a joy to read'. He also published, with the illustrator David Roberts, two acclaimed curiosities, Ten Sorry Tales and Bears of England.