Finding Violet Park
By Author / Illustrator
Jenny Valentine
Genre
Friends and family
Age range(s)
11+
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN
9780007291243
Format
Paperback / softback
Published
02-06-2008
Synopsis
A stunning new look for Jenny Valentine's debut novel, winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize
The mini cab office was up a cobbled mews with little flat houses either side. That's where I first met Violet Park, what was left of her. There was a healing centre next door, a pretty Sixteen-year-old Lucas Swain becomes intrigued by the urn of ashes left in a cab office. Convinced that its occupant - Violet Park - is communicating with him, he contrives to gain possession of the urn, little realising that his quest will take him on a voyage of self-discovery and identity, forcing him to finally confront what happened to his absent (and possibly dead) father...