The Truth About Peacock Blue
A Contemporary, Young Adult book. I have long been a fan of Rosanne Hawke's gentle approach to story telling. Her latest release The Truth About...
A powerful story about one girl's fight for justice in Pakistan. Everything changes for Aster the night her brother dies. Suddenly she's the only hope of the family, and instead of an early marriage to a boy from her small village in Pakistan, her parents decide to send her to the government high school in her brother's place. Aster is excited about this unexpected opportunity for a career, but, as a Christian, she is unprepared her for the difficulties of attending a Muslim school: her fellow students...
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- Pages: 253 pages
- ISBN: 9781743319949 / 0
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Fourteen-year-old Aster Suleiman is thrust into a nightmare. She knew she wasn't her Islamic teacher's favourite student, but a mistake on a High School exam has her arrested on a charge of blasphemy. As the teacher, Mrs Abdul, supposedly destroyed the offensive paper on the spot, her word alone is enough to shatter the lives of several... I have long been a fan of Rosanne Hawke's gentle approach to story telling. Her latest release The Truth About Peacock Blue, does not disappoint. In fact, in this novel we see Hawke at her very best, leading readers into vividly drawn worlds in which her characters, despite being small of voice, manage to speak loudly and poignantly... Disturbing and confronting but we need to know about what is going on. This book got me a bit depressed but imagine how it feels to be actually in the position that Aster is in! Powerful book.