Rachel has just left school and she knows everything. Well, maybe not quite everything. Then she meets the mysterious Mr Preston, who gives her a live-in job looking after Grace - Grace with the lovely house, the grasping sisters, the feral neighbours and the spooky box full of unfinished business; Grace who never speaks. Who is Grace? How do the pieces of her world fit together? And what will it all mean for Rachel?Told from Rachel's gloriously eccentric perspective, this is an intriguing, compassionate, unexpectedly funny story about tasting love, finding grace and getting a life.

 

This book was recognised in the Book of the Year category by the Children's Book Council of Australia Awards.

There are 208 pages in this book. This book was published 2006 by Allen & Unwin .

Alyssa Brugman This is a first novel by this talented young writer who was shortlisted for the Australian Vogel Literary Award.