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Another superb novel for older readers from our best-selling authorFourteen-year-old Prue and her sister Grace have been educated at home by their controlling, super-strict father all their lives. They know they are different to 'normal' girls but their attempts to find out what being an ordinary teenager are like - buying nice clothes instead of wearing Mum's odd hand-made garments, reading teenage magazines etc - are greeted with fury by their Dad. But when Dad has a stroke and ends up in hospital, unable to move or speak, Prue suddenly discovers what it's like to have a little freedom.…
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7 editions- Ebook · English · 2008Random House Publishing Group · 9781407045603
- Paperback · English · 2006Corgi books · 169 pages · 9789780552558
- Paperback · English · 2006Corgi · 169 pages · 9780552553520
- Other · English · 2008Penguin Random House · 9781407045627
- Other · English · 2005Doubleday UK · 199 pages · 9780385608367
- Other · English · 1998Penguin Random House · 9781407045641
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