About the Author: Claire King
Claire King grew up in Yorkshire, England and studied economics at Newnham College, Cambridge. She spent the last twenty years working anywhere in business that allowed her to tell stories. She has finally realised what she wants to be when she grows up.
Claire's prize winning short fiction has been published online and in print including The New Scientist, The Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology and Writers Forum magazine.
Claire has lived and worked in the UK, mid-west USA, India and Ukraine and spent the last 14 years in a ramshackle house in Southern France.
She has recently hung up her onions and moved to a house near a canal in the Cotswolds. A happy ending of sorts...
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Claire King
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Paperback, Published in Apr 2013 by Bloomsbury USA
ISBN10: 1608199444 | ISBN13: 9781608199440
Page count: 224
Under the sweltering heat of the summer sun, five-year-old Pea - and her vivid imagination - run wild in the meadows behind her home on the edge of a small village in Southern France.
Pea’s father died in an accident, and now she only has her little sister, Margot, for company. Their mother is too sad to take care of them; she left her happiness in the hospital last year, along with the first baby.
Overwhelmed by grief, isolated from the other villagers, and pregnant again, Maman has withdrawn to a place where Pea cannot reach her, no matter how hard she tries.
When Pea meets Claude, a neighbour who seems to love the meadow as she does, she wonders if he could be their new papa. But the villagers view their friendship with suspicion. What secret is Claude keeping in his strange, empty house?
"Pea is a heroine you won't forget." (Maggie O'Farrell)
Emotional and beautifully written, you’ll be on tenterhooks throughout (Stylist )
An original, beguiling debut about the consequences of an imaginatively lived life (Marie Claire )
“Perfect for reading groups.â€
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