The Taxi Drivers Daughter

Darling, Julia

ISBN 10: 0670914193 / ISBN 13: 9780670914197

Published by Penguin Viking, London, 2003

About this Item

Penguin, London, 2003. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. Fine in a fine jacket. A clean tight copy, with price (L12.99) intact on front jacket flap. Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Taxi Drivers Daughter
• Publisher: Penguin Viking, London
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670914193
• ISBN 13: 9780670914197
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

About this title

Synopsis

The touching and wonderfully engaging second novel from the author of CROCODILE SOUP.

It is late December and fifteen year old Caris is trying to hang an angel on a Christmas tree in a terraced street in Newcastle upon Tyne. She is interrupted bythe arrival of the police who have come to the house to announce that her mother, Louise, has been caught stealing shoes in a department store in town. Caris's father Mac, a taxi driver, struggles to keep the family together as Christmas looks set for disaster, especially when Louise's drunken, dishevelled mother moves in.

About the Author

Julia Darling's first novel, Crocodile Soup, was published to great attention in 1998 and was on the longlist for the Orange Prize. It will be reissued by Penguin in 2004. Darling has written plays for radio and for the stage and is also a poet. Shelives in Newcastle.