The First Day of Spring: A Novel - Softcover

Tucker, Nancy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0593419081 ISBN 13: 9780593419083

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group, 2021

Synopsis

Chrissie is eight years old and she has a secret: she has just killed a boy.The feeling of it made her belly fizz like soda pop. Across her neighbourhood, Chrissie's playmates and their parents are tearful and terrified. But Chrissie rules the roost - she's the best at wall-walking, she knows how to get free candy, and now she has a secret, thrilling power she doesn't get to experience much at home, where food is scarce and attention scarcer. Twenty years later, Chrissie has a new identity and a new name. As 'Julia,' she is working in a cafe to support herself and her six-year-old daughter, Molly. All she wants is a fresh start, but the past hasn't seemed to let her and Molly alone, and when, suddenly, their future together is threatened, Chrissie/Julia must find a new way to take matters into her own hands. Nancy Tucker leaves the reader breathless as she considers what happens when innocence and survival instincts collide. Tucker writes from professional experience in pediatric mental health, and she inhabits the voices of her young protagonists with a shocking authenticity and precision that moves the reader from sympathy to humour to horror to heartbreak and back again.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0593419081
• ISBN 13: 9780593419083
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352