This is a "verse novel" that sensitively charts the experience of a Polish teenager arriving in this country to face a new life as her old life crumbles. This is not a showy novel that shouts at the reader, rather it is quietly compelling. This type of novel can seem a bit of a "fad", but in this instance it works and Kasienka's voice is completely convincing.
Carnegie shortlist 2013
(Ferelith Hordon - bwl 68 Spring 2013 ) |
