I’m recommending today Away with the Penguins by Hazel Prior
An eccentric old lady decides to investigate a colony of penguins in Antarctica.
Themes abound. Life for Veronica McCreedy verges on the absurd at times. Both she and grandson Patrick are shocked to find each other. They change each other’s lives. And they are changed and touched by their encounter with the penguins. We discover Veronica’s past as Patrick reads her diaries and as she confesses other details to Terry, one of the researchers.
Hazel Prior draws her characters well and presents them to us through two very effective first person narratives.
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