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9781250087935. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 320. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 320 p. WONDERFULLY STRANGE. –Mark Haddon A MASH-UP OF MARGARET ATWOOD AND ROALD DAHL. –Lady Magazine A beguiling irresistibly immersive debut novel about sixteen sisters in a walled garden and what happens to their carefully constructed world when one girl starts asking questions about life outside. Fourteen-year-old Calamity Leek and her sisters spend their days tending white roses and memorizing the lessons in Aunty s Appendix a multi-volume compendium of show tunes beauty regimens and twisted creation myths. Calamity knows the Appendix front to back and she is Aunty s favorite destined for particular greatness. But when her restless sister Truly Polperro gets too curious about life beyond their Wall of Safekeeping she cracks Calamity s world wide open. Calamity needs a new book. And she will have to write it herself. With formidable imagination and brilliant strangeness Paula Lichtarowicz s The First Book of Calamity Leek draws on fairytales and doublespeak to tell a story both classic and keenly modern. Calamity fearless and wrenching leads us to question the stories we ourselves live by.
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