THE BOOK
LEVITATION FOR BEGINNERS
BY SUZANNAH DUNN
1972, Deborah is ten: life is butterscotch angel delight and Clunk Click, and Crackajack.But new girl Sarah-Jayne starts at school, full of gossip and thrilling stories about levitation. The other girls are dazzled but Deborah is wary. Then she’s invited to her house, where she encounters Sarah-Jayne’s big sister’s fiance, Max, which is when she senses that all isn’t quite as it seems.
SUZANNAH DUNN
Launched in 1990 with her debut novel, Darker Days Than Usual, Suzannah Dunn wrote a further five critically acclaimed contemporary novels, and a short story collection, published by Flamingo, before writing her first historical novel, The Queen of Subtleties, which was published in 2004. She went on to write The Sixth Wife, The Queen’s Sorrow, The Confession of Katherine Howard, The May Bride, The Lady of Misrule and The Testimony of Alys Twist.
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