The Year the Gypsies Came
  • Published: 5 April 2007
  • ISBN: 9780141960104
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 288

The Year the Gypsies Came

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A future classic - The Year the Gypsies Came is the stunning and haunting first novel by Linzi Glass.

Emily Iris looks forward to the times her parents welcome house guests to their family's unhappy home. As long as the visitors are there, her mother and father will put their quarrels aside. But one spring a family of wanderers – an Australian couple and their two boys – comes to stay, starting a chain of events that will shatter Emily's world forever.

Will appeal to readers of Jennifer Donnelly's A Gathering Light and Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible.

On hardback publication this fabulous first novel attracted stunning acclaim.
  • Published: 5 April 2007
  • ISBN: 9780141960104
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 288
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About the author

Linzi Glass

Linzi Glass was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and moved to the United States as a young adult. She has published articles, written plays, screenplays and short stories. She lives in Los Angeles with her teenage daughter, Jordan.

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Praise for The Year the Gypsies Came

Beautifully, powerfully and compellingly written . . . extraordinarily moving

Sunday Times

Wonderful . . . This is a new book with an old and wise heart. It may well have the makings of a classic

Guardian

Beautifully, powerfully and compellingly written . . . extraordinarily moving

Sunday Times

Realistically evoking the perspective of a child of the era, Glass spins a lyrical story that is at once heartbreaking and hopeful

Time Out

This outstanding first novel arcs beautifully to its terrible climax and is deeply moving

Observer

Every now and then a book comes along that's unusual, compelling and deeply absorbing yet is so tragically simple, it leaves an indelible trace on the memory. The Year the Gypsies Came is one of these

Irish Independent
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