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Becoming Dinah

English

By (author): Kit de Waal

A gripping, heart-wrenching coming-of-age story - Guardian

In her first YA novel, Costa-shortlisted Kit de Waal responds to classic Moby Dick by tearing the power away from obsessive Captain Ahab and giving it to a teenage girl.

Dinah's whole world is upside down, dead things and angry men and cuts all over her head that are beginning to sting....

Seventeen-year-old Dinah needs to leave her home, the weird commune where she grew up. She needs a whole new identity, starting with how she looks, starting with shaving off her hair, her 'crowning glory'. She has to do it quickly, because she has to go now.

Dinah was going to go alone and hitch a ride down south. Except, she ends up being persuaded to illegally drive a VW campervan for hundreds of miles, accompanied by a grumpy man with one leg. This wasn't the plan.

But while she's driving, Dinah will be forced to confront everything that led her here, everything that will finally show her which direction to turn...

In her first YA novel, Costa-shortlisted author Kit de Waal responds to the classic Moby Dick with entirely new characters, a VW campervan, and by tearing the power away from obsessive Captain Ahab and giving it to a teenage girl who's determined to find a new life, far away from her unconventional upbringing.

An emotionally charged book - Daily Mail

Fresh and defiantly original ... what a beautiful book - Sarah Moore Fitzgerald

An emotional coming of age tale of escape, mission, and ultimately, self-knowledge - The Big Issue

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Product Details
  • Weight: 224g
  • Dimensions: 128 x 196mm
  • Publication Date: 11 Jul 2019
  • Publisher: Hachette Children's Group
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • Age Group: Ages 12+
  • ISBN13: 9781510105706

About Kit de Waal

Kit de Waal was born in Birmingham to an Irish mother who was a childminder and foster carer and a Caribbean father. She worked for fifteen years in criminal and family law was a magistrate for several years and sits on adoption panels. She used to advise Social Services on the care of foster children and has written training manuals on adoption foster care and judgecraft for members of the judiciary. Her writing has received numerous awards including the Bridport Flash Fiction Prize 2014 and 2015 and the SI Leeds Literary Reader's Choice Prize 2014 and the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year. MY NAME IS LEON her first novel was published in 2016 and shortlisted for the Costa Book Award. She has two children and lives in the West Midlands.

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