Loose Connections
Quarto Publishing
Jake s dad is away and his pregnant mum is in hospital so his granny is looking after Jake or so they think But Gran has changed She tends to be dazed or confused fills Jake s sandwiches with strange combinations of food leaves the cooker on and wanders down the road in her nightie in the middle of the night Jake doesn t want to worry his parents so he tries to look after Gran himself But help comes from a mysterious quarter in the form of a strange ghostly girl called Verity Birth death and the rites of passage in family life that connect them are beautifully portrayed through the eyes of a young teenage boy
