6/27/2023 0 Comments Orangeboy by Patrice Lawrence“No matter what the future brings, I’ll have done this. But this feels different, this feels like I’ve done a good thing,” she said. “Normally in my head, when something good happens, there is that voice saying ‘you don’t deserve it’. When her best friend Lupa disappears into a forbidden forest, she volunteers to find her using the island’s myths and the maps given to her by her father.Īfter the ceremony on Thursday night, Millwood Hargrave, who is a graduate of Cambridge and Oxford and was a Barbican Young Poet, told the Guardian that she had not expected to win and felt “very grateful and happy”. She lives on the island of Joya, which is reigned over by a strict governor. The book tells the story of cartographer’s daughter Isabella Riosse. “It’s a story that’s quite timeless, and I expect people will be reading it in years to come,” he said, adding that it represented the “heart” of the chain’s mission, which is to promote “good, old-fashioned storytelling”. Influenced by Philip Pullman’s The Firework-Maker’s Daughter, the book was described by Waterstones managing director James Daunt as “wonderful”.
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