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The first true lie / Marina Mander ; translated from the Italian by Stephen Twilley.

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9780857865496 (pbk.) :
ISBN	0857865498 (pbk.) :
Personal Name	Mander, Marina, 1963-
Uniform Title	Prima vera bugia.
Title	The first true lie / Marina Mander ; translated from the Italian by Stephen Twilley.
Publication Details	Edinburgh : Canongate, 2014.
Physical Description	192 p. ; 18 cm.
Note	Translated from the Italian.
Summary Note	Luca and his mum are like two peas in a pod in their special, fragile world. Then, one winter morning his mother doesn't wake up. Luca suddenly finds himself alone for the first time. Terrified of what telling the truth might bring, he decides to keep the biggest secret of his life. Luca goes along to school every day, pretending everything is as it always has been. But he returns home every night to a cold, dark house. So he begins to build a protective bubble with the memories of his mother, the words and stories he so loves - and his cat Blue - against the truth on the other side of the bedroom door.
Subject - Topical Term	Mothers and sons -- Fiction
	Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Fiction
	Mothers -- Death -- Fiction
Added Entry - Personal Name	Twilley, Stephen