The Exiles at Home

The Exiles at Home

by HilaryMcKay (Author)

Synopsis

When Ruth Conroy decides to sponsor a child in Africa, she is unprepared for the difficulties involved in finding GBP10 a month. So she enlists the help of her sisters - Phoebe, Naomi and Rachel - who are only too eager to dream up hare-brained fund-raising schemes ...Undisciplined baby-sitters, unhygienic caterers or fraudulent pavement artists, their hilarious projects never fail to cause chaos and mayhem.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 176
Edition: New
Publisher: Hodder Children's Books
Published: 19 Apr 2001

ISBN 10: 034072692X
ISBN 13: 9780340726921
Book Overview: This title won the Smarties Prize.

Author Bio
Hilary McKay won the Guardian Children's Award with her first novel, The Exiles. Her subsequent work has achieved similar recognition - The Exiles at Home won the Smarties Prize and the Dog Friday trilogy was critically acclaimed. A graduate of Botany and Zoology from St Andrews University, Hilary now writes full-time. She lives in Derbyshire with her husband and children.