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October October

by Katya Balen · 2020

Literary Fiction · ranked #265 in category

Ten-year-old October has spent her whole life living wild in the woods with her father — until an accident forces her to move to London to live with the mother she barely knows. Balen's Carnegie Medal-winning novel is about wildness, belonging and the different kinds of home a child can have, told in lyrical, nature-saturated prose.

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Category
Literary Fiction
First published
2020 · 2020s
Author
Katya Balen
Standing
Essential Read

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