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Helena, or the Sea in Summer

Author: Julian Ayesta

Translator: Margaret Jull Costa  

Aunt Josefina's fat white legs under the water; a child standing on a grown-up's shoulders and plunging into the waves; eating lunch on the beach, the food gritty with sand; a late afternoon swim in the delicious water; getting changed behind the rocks, shivering in the suddenly cold wind; then walking home singing and picking sun-warm blackberries...

Against the backdrop of a seaside holiday, the book sings the joys of summer freedoms and explores that transitional moment when childhood becomes adolescence.

RRP: £6.99

No. of pages: 124

Publication date: 12.08.2008

ISBN numbers:
Paperback
978 1 903517 59 8

Rights:
World English