Name: My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece
ISBN: 9781780621869

Annabel Pitcher

My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece

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97% 

Wow This book has been a complete discovery! I bought it at a second-handed store and I didn't know anything about it. I just saw "children's novel" and "funny" on the cover and I bought it, thinking it would be a really light novel. But...

Well, let's just say that I have never read a book more impactful and complex. I absolutely loved this book. Although it's for and from the point of view of a child, I believe that adults can read it and enjoy it more than a child, as it touches really deep themes, such as death, assassination, racism, bullying, abandonment, and much more. 

This book will forever have a place in my library and I recommend it to everyone. However, I'm not very sure if I would classify it as a "children's novel".

sarina

This book was both saddening yet heartwarming at the same time. I especially love the fact that the book was written in the perspective of a child. The extremely descriptive narration made this book so much better. Check TW’s before reading!! 

My sister Rose lives on the mantelpiece. Well, some of her does. A collarbone, two ribs, a bit of skull, and a little toe. To ten-year-old Jamie, his family has fallen apart because of the loss of someone he barely remembers: his sister Rose, who died five years ago in a terrorist bombing. To his father, life is impossible to make sense of when he lives in a world that could so cruelly take away a ten-year-old girl. To Rose's surviving fifteen year old twin, Jas, everyday she lives in Rose's ever present shadow, forever feeling the loss like a limb, but unable to be seen for herself alone. Told with warmth and humor, this powerful novel is a sophisticated take on one family's struggle to make sense of the loss that's torn them apart... and their discovery of what it means to stay together.

Holly Jones

For a children's book it includes quiet mature ideas regarding terrorism and islamiphobia. This may be considered offensive by some readers

Scarlett 

Marie 🕊

Andrea Pozo

Marta Costa 🐰

Libby Kingston

Ten-year-old Jamie Matthews has just moved to the Lake District with his Dad and his teenage sister, Jasmine for a 'Fresh New Start'. Five years ago his sister's twin, Rose, was blown up by a terrorist bomb. His parents are wrecked by their grief, Jasmine turns to piercing, pink hair and stops eating. The family falls apart. But Jamie hasn't cried in all that time. To him Rose is just a distant memory. Jamie is far more interested in his cat, Roger, his birthday Spiderman T-shirt, and in keeping his new friend Sunya a secret from his dad. And in his deep longing and unshakeable belief that his Mum will come back to the family she walked out on months ago. When he sees a TV advert for a talent show, he feels certain that this will change everything and bring them all back together once and for all.

Shannon Tuck

Ana Cob

My sister lives on the mantelpiece. Well, some of her does. Everyone kept saying it would get better with time, but thats just one of those lies that grown ups tell. Five years on, it.s worse than ever: Dad drinks, Mums gone and Jamies left with questions that he must answer for himself.

My sister lives on the mantelpiece

Katie Day

Shannon Davidson

Lili 

Maura

Lara owens 

Emily Ruth Carter

Morgana

Sophie

Moray Lyle McIntosh

Sally

Elizabeth Hisserich

Narrated by ten-year-old Jamie, this is a novel about the tragedy that tears apart his family after a terrorist attack. As Jamie comes to terms with his loss, he asks questions that he must answer for himself.

My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece

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