My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece

Name: My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece
Rating: 4.486486434936523 (37 reviews)

Annabel Pitcher

Mar 2011 · Hachette UK

4.5

37 reviews

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Winner of the 2012 Branford Boase Award, this is Annabel Pitcher's stunning debut about ten-year-old Jamie, and the way his life and his family are shaped by the sister in an urn on the mantelpiece.

Five years ago, Jamie's sister, Rose, was blown up by a terrorist bomb. His family is torn apart by their grief. His mum runs away. His dad turns to drink and hate. Rose's surviving twin sister Jasmine stops eating, gets piercings and dyes her hair pink - anything to look different to her twin. But Jamie hasn't cried in all that time. To him, Rose is just a distant memory.

Jamie is far more interested in his cat, Roger, his Spiderman T-shirt, and his deep longing and unshakeable belief that his Mum will come back to the family she walked out on months ago.

But moving away for a Fresh New Start introduces Jamie to something else very interesting - a girl named Sunya. Sunya is bright, exciting and fun, and the one person at school he can call a friend. But how far can this new friendship grow when Jamie is desperate that his dad doesn't find out?

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4.5

37 reviews

A Google user

June 9, 2012

This book is the best book i have read by far. Its honest and realistic. I cried at some parts! Annable Pitcher really puts an image in your head. This book is extremly relatable and i loved every minuite of reading! Its really heart pounding and it lives of the page. If you like your books funny,sad, honest or touching this is the perfect book!

Duncan Brown

June 26, 2015

Great book for young adults, emotional, gripping, and I especially like Jasmines spin at the end! A great example for how to grab the reader in the first page of a book, any ypung writer should take note!

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pseudonym

March 11, 2019

Good read, but very racist in some parts.

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About the author

Annabel graduated from Oxford University with a degree in English Literature and an ambition to be a children's author. She had a variety of jobs before deciding to travel the world and focus on writing. Annabel now lives in Yorkshire with her husband and two young sons. Her first book, MY SISTER LIVES ON THE MANTELPIECE, won the Branford Boase and a Betty Trask Award in 2012 and KETCHUP CLOUDS won the 2014 Waterstones Children's Prize. Annabel's work has been shortlisted for numerous prestigious awards including the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Galaxy British Book Award and the Red House Children's Book Award and longlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the 2012 CILIP Carnegie Medal. Visit Annabel's website at www.annabelpitcher.com and follow her on Twitter @APitcherAuthor.

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