- Published: 1 November 2002
- ISBN: 9780099439653
- Imprint: Red Fox
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 176
- RRP: $27.99
Holding Her Breath
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- Published: 1 November 2002
- ISBN: 9780099439653
- Imprint: Red Fox
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 176
- RRP: $27.99
A masterly piece of storytelling
Jan Mark, Carousel
Not for the faint-hearted, opening with a sickening scene of incest forcing a 16-year-old boy to leave home and gathering momentum with gritty, though never gratuitous, scenes of painful childbirth, pigeon neck-ringing and exploding pheasants. But it works
Eileen Armstrong, The School Librarian
Exceptional and so heartbreakingly real
Booklist
Paulsen's coming-of-age memoir is nearly Steinbeckian in its unadorned but effective prose, and the events of the author's young life have a universality that will draw in readers heading for their own rites of passage
Bulletin