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| By: | Sarah Moore Fitzgerald |
| Publisher: | Hachette Ireland |
| Published: | January 2016 |
| Pages: | 240 |
| Categories: | Childrens |
| Language: | English |
| Available as: | Hardback, Paperback |
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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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