Alarm girl

ISBN: 9781908434463
ISBN: 1908434465
Physical Description: electronic resource remote 1 online resource.
Publisher: Brighton [England] : Myriad Editions, 2014.

Summary: When 11-year-old Indigo and her older brother Robin arrive in South Africa to stay with their father, they find a luxury lifestyle that is a world away from their modest existence back in England. But Indigo is uneasy in the foreign landscape and confused by the family's silence surrounding her mother's recent death. Unable to find solace in either new or old faces, she begins to harbour violent suspicions in place of the truth. Steeped in the dry heat of a South African summer, this keen and touching debut seamlessly interweaves the voices of Indigo and her mother, and beautifully captu.