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The Boy Who Could Keep a Swan in His Head

Paperback • 2018 • 1. edition

The Boy Who Could Keep a Swan in His Head

By John Hunt

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About the book

This is a story of Phen, aged 11, who lives in Hillbrow in 1967. He loves reading and words the way other boys love racing cars and soccer. He can, almost literally, live in a book as he devours its pages. This is just as well as he stutters badly and has a sick father whose head lives in a library. Stephen is forced to live out his own story as he befriends a hobo in the local park called Heb 13:2. This eccentric angel offers unorthodox advice as the boy's life spins deeper and deeper into turm...Show more

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ISBN

9781415209660

Publisher

Random House (Pty) Ltd South Africa

Published year

2018

Language

Edition

1

Original title

The Boy Who Could Keep a Swan in His Head

Format

Paperback

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