SuitabookGuilt and responsibility
Rosalie believes she is responsible for her mother’s fractured ankle.
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Hadley Dyer - Author
A mystery-led family story about guilt, disappearance and unexpected partnership, with Rosalie and David investigating together while learning more about the people around them.
It's a long, hot Halifax summer in 1959 and twelve-year-old Rosalie Norman has a guilty secret. Her no-nonsense, authoritarian mother has fallen and fractured her ankle -- and it's all Rosalie's fault. But news that her teenaged cousin has vanished pushes the accident from everyone's minds. Now, to help out, the family has hired the strange new neighbor, a boy named David -- or the "Gravedigger" as other kids cruelly call him -- who becomes a key to the mystery. As Rosalie and David search the city's historic North End for her cousin Johnny, Rosalie discovers something about the love and the secrets that bind her family.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceA mystery-led family story about guilt, disappearance and unexpected partnership, with Rosalie and David investigating together while learning more about the people around them.
Rosalie believes she is responsible for her mother’s fractured ankle.
The search leads Rosalie towards discoveries about the love and secrets binding her family.
Other children cruelly call David the “Gravedigger”, while he becomes important to Rosalie’s search.
Pay particular attention to emotional intensity.
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