Doll - Softcover

Singer, Nicky

Softcover

ISBN 10: 000715416X ISBN 13: 9780007154166

Publisher: Collins Flamingo, 2003

Synopsis

A story of dark emotions and strange friendship, Doll is the eagerly awaited new title from Nicky Singer, following the triumph of her first children’s book, Feather Boy.

Tilly's biker mother gave Tilly a doll when she was on her deathbed. There is something strange about the doll, something dangerous – something which brings Tilly into the path of Jan, a South American boy with his own problems. But there are questions that have not been answered. Is Tilly's mother really dead, or is there a more painful reason for her absence?

About this title

About the Author

Nicky Singer was born in 1956 and has worked in publishing, the arts and television. She was co-founder and co-director of Performing Arts Labs, a charity dedicated to training new writers for theatre, screen and opera. In 1995 she presented BBC2’s highly acclaimed documentary series on women’s fertility, “Labours of Eve”. In 2000, Nicky was made a board member of the South East Arts Board. Nicky lives in Brighton with her husband and their two young sons and a daughter.

From the Back Cover

TILLY: Sometimes I think my brain is full of locked boxes. And that one day there will be too many boxes and my brain will explode. Then fourteen years of scary things will cascade to the floor and finally I'll have to look. But not now. Not yet.

JAN: The stars of the cold north are not visible to southern eyes, the eyes of his mother. If he were a real Chilean boy, what stars would shine for him? How can he imagine his mother if he cannot imagine her sky?

We are the misfits.

We are the motherless.

We share so much.

But we have nothing in common.

We are twin souls

But we have never met.

Yet.

Praise for Nicky Singer's first Collins Book, 'Feather Boy'

"Inventive, original and full of surprises, it's the sort of dazzling debut novel that most publishers would fall over themselves to snap up."
'T2'

Edition details

• Publisher: Collins Flamingo
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 000715416X
• ISBN 13: 9780007154166
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208