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466 pages
On cover: How I lost my mum, found my dad and made friends with catastrophe
Summary: This is the diary of me, Ellery Brown, aged fifteen and a half. I’m supposed to use it to record my feelings about my mum, since she died. So why do I keep thinking about who my dad might be, instead. My best friend Meg has narrowed it down to three authors my mum knew. (She was an author too.) But they’re not just in different countries; they’re on different continents. Which means fake IDs, passports, plane tickets, and somehow getting away from my self-obsessed grandmother. One thing’s for sure: this year is going to be interesting