Exiles in Love [Paperback]

'McKay has created a boisterous, chaotic family which always makes me want to rush out and adopt three sisters.' -- TES

'McKay has created a boisterous, chaotic family which always makes me want to rush out and adopt three sisters.'

The four Conroy sisters find themselves falling prey to what Big Grandma calls the 'family failing'. Impracticably. Desperately. Unsuitably. And usually quite hopelessly! Ruth is the hardest hit, falling for the school bus driver, the temporary English teacher and the boy who works at the butcher shop simultaneously. Naomi shares her love for the English teacher, Rachel fancies French visitor Philippe and Phoebe is occupied spying on everybody else! And as always, all four girls seem unable to avoid hilarious situations ...

The Conroys have a fatal tendency to fall hopelessly in love. Ruth falls in love with the school bus-driver, her English teacher, the school hunk and Mr Rochester from Jane Eyre. Even Big Grandma is chasing her old French boyfriend and planning to introduce his grandson, Philippe, to the love-struck sisters.

This is the third hilarious book about the Exiles, from the prize-winning author, Hilary Mckay.

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Hilary McKay won the Guardian Children's Award with her first novel, The Exiles. Her subsequent work has achieved similar recognition - The Exiles at Home won the Smarties Prize and the Dog Friday trilogy was critically acclaimed. A graduate of Botany and Zoology from St Andrews University, Hilary now writes full-time. She lives in Derbyshire with her husband and children.