Saffy's Angel: Book 1 (Casson Family)

Saffy's Angel: Book 1 (Casson Family)

by HilaryMcKay (Author)

Synopsis

Meet Saffy, Indigo, Rose and Caddy Casson. This colourful and hilarious series will make you wish you were part of the family!

After Saffron discovers that she's adopted, life is never quite the same. Her artistic parents and doting siblings adore her, but Saffy wants a piece of her past. So when her grandfather bequests a stone angel to her, Saffy knows she has to find it. Realising that her childhood in Siena holds the key, she stows away on a car trip to Italy.

The rest of the family are engaged in their own wacky projects: Caddy, a hopeless student, is revising for her A levels and desperately trying to pass her driving test. Indigo, the only boy in the Casson family, is determined to rid himself of his fear of heights. And the youngest, Rose, a budding artist, has a knack for baiting her pompous dad, with entertaining results . . .

'This book truly is a masterpiece' Guardian

Saffy's Angel won the Whitbread Children's Book Award, and book 3, Permanent Rose, was shortlisted for the same award, celebrating McKay's talent for conveying the anarchic bedlam of family life.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
Edition: UK ed.
Publisher: Hodder Children's Books
Published: 03 Sep 2009

ISBN 10: 0340989041
ISBN 13: 9780340989043
Children’s book age: 9-11 Years
Book Overview: Meet Saffy, Indigo, Rose and Caddy: Hilary McKay's Casson family are eccentric, artistic, and very real! Winner of the Whitbread Children's Book Award.

Media Reviews
Marvellous. * The Sunday Telegraph *
I love this book. I still wish I'd written it -- Sally Nichols * Books For Keeps *
If there is one single writer whose style and voice I wish I could capture and make mine, it's Hilary McKay. * Elizabeth Wein, author of Code Name Verity *
Author Bio
Born in Boston, Lincolnshire, Hilary McKay grew up in a household of readers and read voraciously from an early age. After studying Botany and Zoology at St Andrews University, she went on to work as a biochemist, but always wanted to write. Hilary's novels have won numerous awards including the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Smarties Award and the Whitbread Children's Book Award. She lives in a small village in Derbyshire with her family.