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Beverly, Right Here

"Funny, touching novel with an amazingly tough heroine"

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This is a return to the characters of Di Camillo’s Raymie Nightingale and Louisiana’s Way Home – though it is not necessary to have read either novel to appreciate this story.  Precipitated by the death of her dog companion, Buddy, Beverly has no reason now to stay at home, so she leaves.  She is 14 years old, but by a sequence of good luck, and a lift from a cousin, she ends up in Tamaray, bunking with a grandmother figure in a trailer park community and getting a job with a very disorganised café owner.  

 

This story could have been very bleak, but the wonderful characters DiCamillo draws, and the humour with which she tells this story make it very engaging.  Obviously set in the US this gives the landscape an exotic feel, and the characters have a wonderfully transatlantic humour that can be appreciated anywhere. This is the story of Beverly’s survival, and the rebuilding of her grief battered resilient character – so she can eventually return to her hometown, her close friend and her less than satisfactory mother. An ultimately uplifting story of survival, acceptance and friendship in unlikely places. 

Tricia Adams

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