Description
Sonya Hartnett the Guardian Winner of Children’s Fiction Prize for 2002 – author of Thursday’s Child – is a deeply moving novel.
“Sometimes you have to dig deep to survive. During the long, hungry years of the Great Depression, Harper Flute watches with a child’s clear eyes her family’s struggle to survive on the hot and impoverished land. As life on the surface grows harsher, her little brother Tin – “Born on a Thursday and so fated to his wanderings” – escapes ever deeper into a dark, subterranean world…”
– Blurb of “Thursday’s Child”
