All Four Quarters of the Moon

All Four Quarters of the Moon
Shirley Marr
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Paperback
h198 x 130mm - 336pg
5 Jan 2023 UK
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9781803704326
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A big-hearted story of love and resilience, starring sisters and storytellers Peijing and Biju, a lost family finding their way, a Little World made of paper, a Jade Rabbit, and the ever-changing but constant moon. Making mooncakes with Ah Ma for the Mid-Autumn Festival was the last day of Peijing' s old life. Now, adapting to their new life in Australia, Peijing thinks everything will turn out okay for her family as long as they have each other - but cracks are starting to appear. Her little sister, Biju, needs Peijing to be the dependable big sister. Ma Ma is no longer herself; Ah Ma keeps forgetting who she is; and Ba Ba, who used to work seven days a week, is adjusting to being a hands-on dad. How will Peijing cope with the uncertainties of her own little world while shouldering the burden of everyone else? And if Peijing' s family are the four quarters of the mooncake, where does she fit in? ' An enchanting, touching, perfectly crafted story that will live in my heart for a very long time. A novel of family, friendship, culture, honour and identity that is both timely and timeless. I laughed and cried so many times, and felt as if my soul and my worldview were both expanding. An instant classic. ' KATE GORDON, author of CBCA award-winning Aster' s Good, Right Things
Shirley Marr is a first-generation Chinese-Australian living in Perth and an author of young adult and children' s fiction, including YA novels Fury and Preloved, and children' s novels Little Jiang and A Glasshouse of Stars. She describes herself as having a Western mind and an Eastern heart. She likes to write in the space in the middle where they both collide, basing her stories on her own personal experiences of migration and growing up in Australia, along with the folk and fairy tales from her mother. Arriving in mainland Australia from Christmas Island as a seven-year-old in the 1980s and experiencing the good, the bad and the wonder that comes with culture shock, Shirley has been in love with reading and writing from that early age. Shirley is a universe full of stars and stories and hopes to share the many other novels that she has inside her.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781803704326
Published: 5 Jan 2023
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Usborne Publishing
Publisher: Usborne Publishing
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 130mm
Pages: 336

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