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Title	:	My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece
Author	:	Annabel Pitcher
Book Format	:	Audio CD
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 324 pages
Published	:	March 1st 2011 by Orion Publishing Group
Categories	:	Young Adult. Fiction. Contemporary. Childrens. Middle Grade. Realistic Fiction

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Ten-year-old Jamie hasn't cried since it happened. He knows he should have—Jasmine cried, Mum cried, Dad still cries. Roger didn't, but then he is just a cat and didn't know Rose that well, really.

Everyone kept saying it would get better with time, but that's just one of those lies that grown-ups tell in awkward situations. Five years on, it's worse than ever: Dad drinks, Mum's gone and Jamie's left with questions that he must answer for himself.

This is his story, an unflinchingly real yet heart-warming account of a young boy's struggle to make sense of the loss that tore his family apart.

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Original Title:	My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece
ISBN:	1409132889 (ISBN13: 9781409132882)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Jamie Matthews, Jasmine Matthews, Sunya
Setting:	Lake District, Cumbria, England
Literary Awards:	Branford Boase Award (2012), Grampian Children’s Book Award Nominee (2013), Betty Trask Award (2012), Carnegie Medal Nominee (2012)

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What can I say about this book? The boy Jamie is the only developed character, and that isn't saying much. The parents are too extreme in their acting out; they lacked zero emotional maturity. There's no attempts to tackle the reality of grief without descending into archetypes. Also, there was a profound lack of continuity in the story arch; the father drinks all day and doesn't work, yet there's no mention of food running out, or bills going unpaid, or the lights going out! The twin, Jas is

This book is difficult to classify. Technically, it is a children's book; it has a 10 year old narrator, and the story is told entirely from his point-of-view. And yet, I'm more apt to describe this book as YA -- or "for everyone" who has grown up and had to deal with all of the losses, big and small, that life throws at you. (That should cover pretty much everyone.) Young Jamie has had to deal with loss on a spectacularly huge scale. His sister has died in a terrorist bombing five years before

My mum loved this book. It's rare she says she loves a book, and she's a bigger reader than me. So I think I expected big, cry-inducing, things from this book. So Im just gonna put this out there- I didnt love this book. I remember reading books like these when I was a child, where these children have less than perfect childhoods for whatever reason and I never understood their actions or reasons for thinking the way they did. So there you have it, I didnt get the story. I found the book a

SPOILER FREE REVIEW 3.5/5 Stars ...That's my rating if you consider everything. The plot and the writing and all of that stuff about which I care about when rating a book. Let's imagine, however, that my rating was only based on the range and depth of emotions this book made me feel. Then it would easily be a 10/5 stars read.This is a simple and complicated story at the same time. For example, it's interesting to me that the main cause for a lot of the characters' actions throughout the story

An enjoyable and certainly important read.

Ive been sitting here for a bit trying to collect my thoughts enough that I can write the kind of coherent review this book deserves. There are so many things I want to speak about and discuss but at the same time, I wonder if it wouldnt be more appropriate to just ask you to please read this book. It might be the best one you read this year.The novel has the same poignant flavor as Tabitha Suzumas Forbidden. The same sort of intricate family politics and themes of self-discovery and friendship