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He attended the paston school and studied english and american studies at the university of warwick, after which he worked at a variety of jobs before becoming a novelist at a relatively late age. Somehow it all connects, thanks to peet s cool eye, generous sensibility and fierce intelligence. Mal peet 19472015 is the acclaimed author of the carnegie medalwinning novel tamar as well as the boston globehorn book honor book life. When workingclass clem ackroyd falls for frankie mortimer, the gorgeous daughter of a wealthy local landowner, he has no hope that it can. He is also the coauthor of cloud tea monkeys, mysterious traveler, and night sky dragons, all of which he wrote with. A comingofage story framed by some of the most terrifying events of the last 60 years, from world war ii to 911. With its urgent sense of history, sweeping emotion, and winning young narrator, mal peets latest is an unforgettable, timely exploration of life during wartime.
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Clem ackroyd lives with his parents and grandmother in a claustrophobic home too small to accommodate their largerthanlife characters in the bleak norlfolk countryside. Peets subtle, literary play with narrative voice, style, and chronology make this a satisfyingly sophisticated teen novel. An exploded diagram is a brilliant comingofage story set against the. An exploded diagram by mal peet, 9781844281008, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. At the same time, the cuban missile crisis is presented in a gripping way. An exploded diagram spans almost sixty years, from the beginning in world war ii where the protagonist, clem ackroyd, is born during a nazi bombing, to the ironic end where clem. Life, an exploded diagram by mal peet 9781844281008.
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Clems life changes irrevocably when he meets frankie, the daughter of a wealthy farmer, and experiences first love, in all its pain and glory. Peet achieves what few writers for young adults have. A brilliant comingofage story set against the backdrop of the cold war and events leading up to. Mal peet grew up in a council estate in north norfolk in a family that he describes as emotionally impaired. And for adults, for teenagers, for anyone at all, mal peets life.
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