En cours de chargement...
?Sal planned it for almost a year before they ran. She nicked an Ordnance Survey map from the school library. She bought a compass, a Bear Grylls knife, waterproofs and a first aid kit from Amazon using stolen credit cards. She read the SAS Survival Handbook and watched loads of YouTube videos. And now Sal knows a lot of stuff. Like how to build a shelter and start a fire. How to estimate distances, snare rabbits and shoot an airgun.
And how to protect her sister, Peppa. Because Peppa is ten, which is how old Sal was when Robert started on her. Told in Sal's distinctive voice, and filled with the silent, dizzying beauty of rural Scotland, Sal is a disturbing, uplifting story of survival, of the kindness of strangers, and the irrepressible power of sisterly love ; a love that can lead us to do extraordinary and unimaginable things.
Sal -- the boundless potential for the reinvention of the self
'Sal' is not an ordinary child's adventure story set in the mountains of Scotland. Mick Kitson's début novel is a clarion call for self-preservation and survival for two young half-sisters fleeing a terribly dysfunctional family situation in the wake of an act of vengeance which threatens their liberty and bonds in the world. Despite their youth and the traumatic circumstances revolving around their flight to the woods, Sal and Peppa are two scrappy girls whose resourcefulness and determination provide the basis for the reinvention of their lives in the most astonishing ways. Consider 'Sal' to be that rarest of feel-good books-- credible, well-written, and relevant to the cares and worries of millions of people in the real world.