'School?' said Queenie, stopping in her tracks. 'No. We don't go to schools. No-one in the Home goes to schools. Matron says schools are full of germs what make you puke and nits what gnaw your hair off.'
Jen Storer, Tensy Farlow and the Home for Mislaid Children
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'grand and vivid...a sheer delight', Australian Bookseller and Publisher magazine 'deliciously menacing, deliciously funny...a glorious read' Australian Booksellers' Association Shortlisted: CBCA Book of the Year 2010 Younger Readers Shortlisted: Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2010 Children's Fiction
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Dumped in the River Charon, hunted by an accursed river creature and betrayed by the wicked Matron Pluckrose, Tensy Farlow is in mortal danger. She has no parents. Worse still, she has no guardian angel. When she is thrown into the Home for Mislaid Children - a gloomy orphanage where ravens attack, Watchers hover over her bed, and even the angels cannot be trusted - it seems that all hope is lost. Yet could it be that a plucky, flame-haired orphan with a mysterious past is precisely what this dark world needs? |
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Written with the generous assistance of the Australia Council Literature Board, Tensy Farlow and the Home for Mislaid Children is published by Penguin Australia (Viking imprint). cover art by Sonia Kretschmar |
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