This is my third Emma Carroll book and it's another one I know will be a hit at school.
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Louie is a young girl, with a dream to wow the audience with her daring tightrope routine. Abandoned as a baby, she is brought up under the Big Top of a travelling circus. However, all is not as it seems, and Louie's courage and determination leads to mysteries, adventure, friendship and perhaps even answers the questions of her own past.
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As much as I love her stories, I'm also swayed by the gorgeous covers of Carroll's books! They look fantastic face out on the library shelves. 💝
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This book was an easy choice when I was looking through the Slightly Foxed catalogue. I have always had an interest in Chinese history and minored in it at university. It's a unique and personal account of Wood's own experiences... fascinating, many of them bizarre and downright funny. I highly recommend it!
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"China in 1975 was a strange, undiscovered country, still half-mad from Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution, when young Frances Wood boarded a plane in London to study for a year in Peking. Based on the letters she wrote home, this account of her experiences is both affecting and hilarious, a unique insight into a mysterious and painful moment in China's history." - SF blurb
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#handgrenadepracticeinpeking #franceswood #slightlyfoxed #slightlyfoxedpaperbacks
