Rooftoppers

Author: Katherine Rundell

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  • : $13.99 AUD
  • : 9780571280599
  • : Faber & Faber, Limited
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  • : April 2012
  • : 198mm X 126mm X 18mm
  • : United Kingdom
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  • : May 2013
  • : May 2021
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Description

Embrace possibility in this luminous novel about a girl in search of her past who discovers a secret rooftop world in Paris.


Everyone thinks that Sophie is an orphan. True, there were no other recorded female survivors from the shipwreck that left baby Sophie floating in the English Channel in a cello case, but Sophie remembers seeing her mother wave for help. Her guardian tells her it is almost impossible that her mother is still alive--but "almost impossible" means "still possible." And you should never ignore a possible.


So when the Welfare Agency writes to her guardian, threatening to send Sophie to an orphanage, she takes matters into her own hands and flees to Paris to look for her mother, starting with the only clue she has-- the address of the cello maker.


Evading the French authorities, she meets Matteo and his network of rooftoppers--urchins who live in the hidden spaces above the city. Together they scour the city in a search for Sophie's mother--but can they find her before Sophie is caught and sent back to London? Or, more importantly, before she loses hope?


Phillip Pullman, author of the His Dark Materials series, calls Rooftoppers "the work of a writer with an utterly distinctive voice and a wild imagination."

Promotion info

Katherine Rundell's beautiful second novel, about a group of urchins living on the rooftops of Victorian Paris, is a lyrical tribute to believing in the impossible.

Awards

CILIP Carnegie Medal shortlist 2014

Author description

Katherine Rundell was born in 1987 and grew up in Africa and Europe. In 2008 she was elected a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Her first book,The Girl Savage, was born of her love of Zimbabwe and her own childhood there; her second, Rooftoppers,was inspired by summers working in Paris and by night-time trespassing on the rooftops of All Souls. She is currently working on her doctorate alongisde an adult novel.