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By: Sarah Moore Fitzgerald
Publisher: Hachette Ireland
Published: January 2016
Pages: 240
Categories: Childrens
Language: English
Available as: Hardback, Paperback
On sale at:
ISBN-13: 9781444007099

Lost memories, lost times, lost lives - heartbreakingly sad and yet uplifting too, a stunning debut by an Irish writer whose work is reminiscent of Annabel Pitcher and Siobhan Dowd - about a boy and his grandfather, who suffers from Alzheimer's.

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