My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece

My sister Rose lives on the mantelpiece.Well, some of her does.A collarbone, two ribs, a bit of skull, and a little toe.
To ten-year-old Jamie, his family has fallen apart because of the loss of someone he barely remembers: his sister Rose, who died five years ago in a terrorist bombing. To his father, life is impossible to make sense of when he lives in a world that could so cruelly take away a ten-year-old girl. To Rose’s surviving fifteen year old twin, Jas, everyday she lives in Rose’s ever present shadow, forever feeling the loss like a limb, but unable to be seen for herself alone.

Told with warmth and humor, this powerful novel is a sophisticated take on one family’s struggle to make sense of the loss that’s torn them apart… and their discovery of what it means to stay together.

Author: Annabel Pitcher
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 10/08/2013
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.50w x 0.65d
ISBN: 9780316176897
Language: English