Description
A dark and affecting tale about the turbulence of growing up, the many worlds we inhabit and the secret lives we liveFifteen-year-old Tenral leads two lives. There is the one she leads with her family and her friends at schoola skin-of-milk life, easy and forgiving, like five oclock sunshine. Into her other, difficult life, move her English teacher, Mrs Alfie, and her dead lover. Tenral recreates their romance, taking her clues from Mrs Alfies dramatic rendering of poetry, and tries to reconcile the past with the present through her own fairytales. Even as her friends look on, disapproving of her... Read More