Product Description

The second novel in the much-loved Exiles series and winner of the Smarties Prize.

When Ruth Conroy decides to sponsor a child in Africa, she is unprepared for the difficulties involved in finding £10 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.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #85000 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 176 pages

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

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

PRAISE FOR THE CASSON FAMILY BOOKS:
'Hilary McKay's wittily observed portrayals of family life are full of warmth, vitality and irrepressible good humour.'

(Kate Agnew, The Guardian )

'McKay has a genius for domestic comedy.' (The Sunday Times )

'Hilary McKay's strength lies in her understanding of young people and her ability to evoke them very simply.' (The Guardian )

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 Saffy`s Angel won the Whitbread. A graduate of Botany and Zoology from St Andrews University, Hilary now writes full-time. She lives in Derbyshire with her husband and two children.

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Customer Reviews

This is a funny sequel which lives up to the original
This is the story of four sisters who are constantly getting themselves in trouble. This book is very well written, and deserves a lot of credit for its humour. It is not a serious book. For anyone who likes laughing, or for people looking for light reading, this is perfect.

The most heart warming book you could read
i loved this book as my school really do sponsor an African school boy. It is a lovely story which had me laughing on minute and crying the next. Please buy this book-it's fantastic!

i wish there was a 4.5
my sister gave me this book when we swapped rooms, well she left it on the shelf, it didnt take long for me to read it but i really empathised with the characters, partly because i live where the book is set, Lincolshire and can relate entirely to long boring summers without wind or anything to do, but mostly because of the skill of the writer , the experiences of the girls and the relationship they have with their grandma