Here I Am! by Pauline Holdstock - 9781771963091

Pauline Holdstock

Here I Am!Author(s): Pauline Holdstock\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Biblioasis, Canada\nImprint: Biblioasis\nISBN-13: 9781771963091, 978-1771963091\nSynopsis\nA 49th Shelf Editors Pick\n\nMyMum said sometimes refugees dont eat anything for days and days. Sometimes weeks and months so I am really lucky. I think she exaggerates. But I think she is right about the lucky bit. Or maybe not. Sometimes I forget that MyMum is dead. But that is probably better than remembering.\n\nWhen Frankies mother dies, he tells his teacher, of course. But he can't seem to get anyone at his school in southern England to listen to him. So the six-year-old comes up with a plan: go to France, find a police station, and ask the officers to ring his father. Thus a stowaways view of the sea opens Giller-nominated Pauline Holdstocks eighth novel, narrated in turns by Frankiewho likes cheese, numbers, the sea when its pink and smooth like counting, and being alone when he feels badand a cast of characters that.