Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-cream Float Before He Stole My Ma by Kerry Hudson

Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-cream Float Before He Stole My Ma

Kerry Hudson

272 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

fiction contemporary young adult emotional reflective medium-paced
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A dazzling new Scottish voice.When Janie Ryan is born, she's just the latest in a long line of Ryan women, Aberdeen fishwives to the marrow, always ready to fight. Her violet-eyed Grandma had predicted she'd be sly, while blowing Benson and Hedges...

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3.91
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challenging: 100%

emotional: 100%

sad: 100%

dark: 80%

reflective: 80%

funny: 40%

hopeful: 20%

informative: 20%

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