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McKay has created a boisterous, chaotic family which always makes me want to rush out and adopt three sisters
Product Description
When Ruth Conroy decides to sponsor a child in Africa, she is unprepared for the difficulties involved in finding GBP10 a month. So she enlists the help of her sisters - Phoebe, Naomi and Rachel - who are only too eager to dream up hare-brained fund-raising schemes ...Undisciplined baby-sitters, unhygienic caterers or fraudulent pavement artists, their hilarious projects never fail to cause chaos and mayhem.
From the Back Cover
Rachel, Naomi, Ruth and Phoebe desperately need ten pounds a month to sponsor a schoolboy in Africa. Some hair-raising schemes follow, including searching for lost treasure and planning a post office raid (for their own money.) Then Big Grandma begins to get suspicious…
The Exiles at Home, winner of the Smarties Prize, reunites the Conroy sisters, their patient parents and the remarkable Big Grandma, stars of 'The Exiles.'
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.About the Author
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.
