by Julia Claiborne Johnson - £7.99 Atlantic Books (Corvus) (2017)
paperback
ISBN 13: 9781782399209 | ISBN 10: 1782399208
For some boys fitting in means standing out.
Meet Frank – he isn’t like other kids. Intrepid explorer, sartorial connoisseur; he’s as strange as he is brilliant. But Frank discovers the hard way that people don’t like brilliant and they hate strange. What Frank longs for – aside from a father – is a friend.
Meet Mimi – a reclusive literary legend and mother to Frank. Mimi has been holed up in her Bel Air mansion for years, keeping her secrets and hiding Frank from a cruel world. Until Alice.
Meet Alice – the level-headed young woman charged with looking after Mimi’s unusual son. In so doing, Alice discovers what it really means to love someone. And she finds a part of herself she never knew was missing.
Funny, poignant and unforgettable, this novel – like Frank – is a one-off creation you’ll fall in love with.
(Price & availability last checked: September 2017)
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