{"product_id":"here-i-am-paperback","title":"Here I Am! - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePauline Holdstock\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003e49\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e Shelf \u003c\/em\u003e Editors' Pick\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMyMum said sometimes refugees don't eat anything for days and days. Sometimes weeks and months so I am really lucky. I think she exaggerates. But I think she is right about the lucky bit.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eOr maybe not.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eSometimes I forget that MyMum is dead. But that is probably better than remembering.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhen Frankie's mother dies, he tells his teacher, of course. But he can't seem to get anyone at his school in southern England to listen to him. So the six-year-old comes up with a plan: go to France, find a police station, and ask the officers to ring his father. Thus a stowaway's view of the sea opens Giller-nominated Pauline Holdstock's eighth novel, narrated in turns by Frankie--who likes cheese, numbers, the sea when it's pink and \"smooth like counting,\" and being alone when he feels bad--and a cast of characters that includes his worried Gran, his callous teacher, and his not-so-reliable father. Set in the summer of Annichka the Soviet space dog, \u003cem\u003eHere I Am \u003c\/em\u003e is a mesmerizing story about the lucidity of children and the shortsightedness of adults.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePauline Holdstock is an internationally published novelist, short fiction writer and essayist. Her novels have been shortlisted for a number of awards, among them the Best First Novel Award, the Scotia Bank Giller prize and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Her historical novel \u003cem\u003eBeyond Measure\u003c\/em\u003e was the winner of the BC Book Prizes Ethel Wilson Award for Fiction. \u003cem\u003eThe Hunter and the Wild Girl\u003c\/em\u003e, her most recent book, won the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize. Pauline lives just outside Victoria on Vancouver Island.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 8.2 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 04, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51770190954784,"sku":"9781771963091","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/e851c66a01441b0b25f3f6362b245d2d.webp?v=1780366769","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/here-i-am-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}