The Year the Gypsies Came

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  • ENGLISH

    Language
  • 288

    Pages
  • 9780141382791

    ISBN
  • 2 mm

    Width
  • 13 mm

    Height
  • 21 gram

    Weight
  • THE

    Edition
  • PAPERBACK

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  • 30 MARCH 2006

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    Description

    In Johannesburg in the late 1960s, the Iris family take in house guests from time to time to diffuse the tension in their large but unhappy home. 11-year-old Emily looks forward to these guests as she knows her parents will set their quarrels aside, and, if only for a short time, be like a real family. One spring a family of wanderers - an Australian couple and their two boys, Streak and Otis, who is brain damaged - comes to stay. Emily and Streak form a close friendship and Emily's beloved, gentle older sister Sarah takes Otis in hand. But...  Read More

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    Linzi Glass

    Linzi moved to the US as a young adult- and has lived in Santa Monica with her teenage daughter, Jordan, for many years.
    She has been in the trenches of animal rescue for seven years and has personally rescued hundreds of dogs. She is the Executive Director and Co-founder of The Forgotten Dog Foundation, a non-profit organization that is dedicated to rescuing, rehabilitating and re-homing dogs in need (her own dogs are rescues).

    She studied at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute before joining the Writers Program, and has worked as a freelance reader and as Literary Coordinator at Creative Artists Agency. She is now a full-time writer, and has co-written three adult screenplays, and two plays. Ms. Glass works as a writing consultant and teaches through the Writers Program at UCLA Extension. She also runs two private writing groups that meet on a weekly basis.

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