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Author: Rundell, Katherine

General fiction (Children’s/YA)

Published on 11 June 2020 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Bloomsbury Childrens Books) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 352 pages
198 x 129 x 27 | 276g

Go on an adventure with Katherine Rundell … FOYLES CHILDREN’S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019From the winner of the Costa Children’s Book Award’An amazing adventure story, told with sparkling style and sleight of hand’ – Jacqueline Wilson’Read everything she writes’ – Daily MailFresh off the boat from England, Vita Marlowe has a job to do. Her beloved grandfather Jack has been cheated out of his home and possessions by a notorious conman with Mafia connections. Seeing Jack’s spirit is broken, Vita is desperate to make him happy again, so she devises a plan to outwit his enemies and recover his home. She finds a young pickpocket, working the streets of the city. And, nearby, two boys with highly unusual skills and secrets of their own are about to be pulled into her lawless, death-defying plan.

Katherine Rundell’s fifth novel is a heist as never seen before – the story of a group of children who will do anything to right a wrong.