'Sharla didn't know how long she'd been sitting there when the door screeched open behind her. She held her breath knowing this was the beginning and the end of her life.'
Sharla Cody is only five but has already had a troubled life - only to find herself dumped with Addy, an elderly neighbour, when her mother takes off for the summer. Two very unlikely people are about to transform each other's lives forever.
Reviews
'A first novel of exquisite power, honesty and conviction. It's portrait of how much has changed, and how little, over nearly a century, in the realms of race, love, hate and loss, is quite nearly without flaws' Jacquelyn Mitchard
Author description
Lori Lansens has written several screenplays. This is her first novel. She lives in Toronto, Canada.