Artichoke Hearts
by Sita Brahmachari
Interest age: 11 to 13
Reading age: 11+
Published by Macmillan, 2011
About this book
Mira is 12, and reaches puberty at exactly the point where her beloved, artistic grandmother enters the final stage of cancer. Together they face a new stage in their life with courage. Mira also experiences love for the first time, but her friend Jidé is a complex and reserved boy whose story is gradually revealed.
Mira's long friendship with Millie appears challenged, but this empathetic account of the process of bereavement, a month’s diary, reassures readers that we grow from our experiences, however painful they are.
Brahmachari’s debut novel is funny, sad, tender and tough. She has a background in theatre, and writes with great understanding and humour about multicultural and bohemian families, drawn in many directions by myriad influences.
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