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Dutton
February 2015
On Sale: January 22, 2015
Featuring: Karl; Agatha Pantha; Millie Bird
311 pages
ISBN: 0525954686
EAN: 9780525954682
Kindle: B00KWG609C
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Literature and Fiction | Fiction
An irresistible debut novel about the wisdom of the very
young, the mischief of the very old, and the magic that
happens when no one else is looking Millie Bird, seven years old and ever hopeful, always
wears
red gumboots to match her curly hair. Her struggling
mother,
grieving the death of Millie’s father, leaves her in the
big
ladies’ underwear department of a local store and never
returns. Agatha Pantha, eighty-two, has not left her house—or
spoken
to another human being—since she was widowed seven years
ago. She fills the silence by yelling at passersby,
watching
loud static on TV, and maintaining a strict daily
schedule. Karl the Touch Typist, eighty-seven, once used his fingers
to type out love notes on his wife’s skin. Now that she’s
gone, he types his words out into the air as he speaks.
Karl’s been committed to a nursing home, but in a moment
of
clarity and joy, he escapes. Now he’s on the lam. Brought together at a fateful moment, the three embark
upon
a road trip across Western Australia to find Millie’s
mother. Along the way, Karl wants to find out how to be a
man again; Agatha just wants everything to go back to how
it
was. Together they will discover that old age is not the same
as
death, that the young can be wise, and that letting
yourself
feel sad once in a while just might be the key to a happy
life.
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