Why I'm Already Blue
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Cover Story
This month we feature the cover of Chris Powling's latest title, Where the Quaggy Bends (see Authorgraph). The book is published in July by HarperCollins (0 00 185417 8, £7.99; 0 00 674087 1, £3.50 pbk) and we are grateful to them for their help in using this illustration.
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Lucy must face up to the disintegration of her parents' marriage and her sister Jane's flight to college. Emotionally bereft, she seeks solace in her guitar and her friendship with Gus, a victim of muscular dystrophy. The storyline is simple but the prose is sensitive, allusive, rare. Character are realised through beautifully agile writing - it's what lies beneath the surface which interests Farish. This is lovely; guide your 12-14 year-old to it - and to Cynthia Voigt and Paula Fox, with whom it has so much in common.
