The Supreme Lie
(Sprache: Englisch)
Fifteen-year-old Gloria is maid to Afalia's tyrannical Head of State, Madame Suprema. When the country is hit by unprecedented flooding, Madame Suprema runs away, fearing she will be blamed for the crisis. To cover up this cowardly act Gloria has to pretend...
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Fifteen-year-old Gloria is maid to Afalia's tyrannical Head of State, Madame Suprema. When the country is hit by unprecedented flooding, Madame Suprema runs away, fearing she will be blamed for the crisis. To cover up this cowardly act Gloria has to pretend to be Madame Suprema and is thrust into a world of corrupt and desperate politicians. As Gloria becomes aware of the forces toying with her every move, she must take decisions that could save, or end, thousands of lives - including her own... Challenging, disturbing and darkly funny, Geraldine McCaughrean's new masterpiece is incredibly relevant to our present times.
Autoren-Porträt von Geraldine Mccaughrean
Geraldine McCaughrean is one of today's most successful and highly regarded children's authors. She has won the CILIP Carnegie Medal twice: first in 1988 with A Pack of Lies and again in 2018 with Where the World Ends. She's won the IBW Book Award 2018, the Whitbread Children's Book Award three times, the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Smarties Bronze Award four times, the prestigious U.S. Printz Award and the Blue Peter Book of the Year Award. Geraldine lives in Berkshire with her husband John and the lingering shades of all those characters she has invented in her books.
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- Autor: Geraldine Mccaughrean
- Altersempfehlung: 12 - 15 Jahre
- 2021, 416 Seiten, Maße: 13,3 x 19,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Usborne Publishing
- ISBN-10: 1474970680
- ISBN-13: 9781474970686
- Erscheinungsdatum: 21.04.2021
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
As always, McCaughrean's prose and characterisation of the good, the bad and the in-between, are a treat. The Sunday Times Children's Book of the Week
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