Caddy's World

Description

Caddy's World is the prequel to Hilary McKay's laugh-out-loud, award-winning Casson Family series. Best friends, boyfriends, problem parents, pink hair. Brothers, sisters, fireworks and unexpected babies. Welcome to Caddy's World. Travel back to when Caddy was a young girl and Rose had not been born, in this moving and comical prequel to the award-winning Saffy's Angel. Follow the family's adventures in the rest of the beloved series: Saffy's Angel, Indigo's Star, Permanent Rose, Caddy Ever After and Forever Rose.

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.

Full of warmth, vitality and irrepressible good humour. * Guardian * Hilary McKay, the best writer of child dialogue around at the moment... Glorious novel from a true master of her craft. * Independent * A triumph of humour, emotion and realism * Daily Mail * Caddy's world is saturated with colour, style and romance, with even the most mundane detail given a witty lick of polish. * The Daily Telegraph * Caddy's World excels in portraying not only the thoughts and feelings of four 12-year-old girls, but also those of the Casson parents * The Times * Unsentimental with soft-centred charm * Independent on Sunday * If you haven't read these books, what on earth are you waiting for? You won't find a more endearing, eccentric, maddening and marvellously warm family in any other book, by anyone, ever. * The Ultimate Book Guide *