A gathering light
Jennifer Donnelly, Bloomsbury (Firm) (Publisher)
Based on a real murder at the turn of the century, this is a powerful coming-of-age book. Mattie is torn between her familial responsibilities, her desire to be a writer, and the excitement of a first romance. Her dilemmas and choices are quietly reflected in the life of a young woman found drowned in a lake, a woman that Mattie onlly gets to know through reading her letters
Print Book, English, 2003
Bloomsbury, London, 2003