Saffy's Angel

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Saffy's Angel was the winner of the 2002 Whitbread Award and is the first novel in Hilary McKay's hilarious Casson Family series. After Saffron discovers that she's adopted, life is never quite the same. Her artistic parents and doting siblings adore her, but Saffy wants a piece of her past. So when her grandfather bequests her a stone angel - a relic from the childhood she never knew - Saffy knows she has to find it. Realizing that Siena holds the key, she stows away on a car trip to Italy. The rest of the family are engaged in their own wacky projects: Caddy, a hopeless student, is revising for her A levels and desperately trying to pass her driving test. Indigo, the only boy in the Casson family, is determined to rid himself of his fear of heights. And the youngest, Rose, a budding artist, has a knack for baiting her pompous dad, with entertaining results . . . Follow the family's adventures in the rest of the beloved series: Indigo's Star, Permanent Rose, Caddy Ever After, Forever Rose and Caddy's World.

Hilary McKay won the Costa Children's Book Award for The Skylarks' War, the Guardian Fiction Prize for The Exiles, and the Smarties and the Whitbread Award for The Exiles in Love and Saffy's Angel respectively. Hilary McKay's Fairy Tales was her first book with Macmillan Children's Books and is a critically acclaimed collection of clever retellings.

This book truly is a masterpiece. * Guardian * Marvellous * The Sunday Telegraph * I love this book. I still wish I'd written it -- Sally Nichols, Books for Keeps If there is one single writer whose style and voice I wish I could capture and make mine, it's Hilary McKay -- Elizabeth Wein, author of Code Name Verity A funny, exuberant story * Carousel * A real feel-good novel, McKay treats us once again to one of her brilliantly characterised families. This is a really lovely book * The Bookseller * A funny and perceptive novel . . . a real delight to read * The Parents' Guide * A tale that is both funny and touching * Guardian * Saffy's Angel is a delight from start to finish . . . with characters you want to stay with forever. Warm, beautifully crafted and always original, it's pure fun - a book to recommend without hesitation -- The Whitbread judges, as reported in The Daily Mail