![]() ![]() She knows that he jumped off a cliff because Grandpa nicknamed him Bird and he thought he could fly. She knows that her brother died on the day she was born. And this is because nobody is telling her the whole truth. Yes, Mom and Dad are griefstricken and bitter. ![]() There is a huge amount of grief and pain in this novel and Jewel is bearing the brunt of it. And his arrival is about to change Jewel's life forever. She finally has someone that she can really talk to, who really understands the way her mind works. Grandpa doesn't like this new John, but Jewel does. Until, one day, she finds a mysterious boy sitting in one of her favourite trees. She's quite certain that nobody will ever love her as much as Mom, Dad and Grandpa loved John. In fact, Jewel doesn't see that her parents have any joy in their daughter at all. Birthdays for Jewel are miserable affairs during which her parents' grief for their son trump their joy in their daughter. Grandpa stopped speaking the day he killed my brother, John. Shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2016: Younger Fiction ![]()
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