Longing to be normal, Gabriella enrols in a strict day school, only to find herself balancing two very different lives. Alongside her ever expanding set of siblings and half-siblings, numerous pets and her father's rag-tag admirers, Gabriella navigates a chaotic childhood of wild bohemian parties and fluctuating levels of poverty. Gabriella lives in a damp, ramshackle, book-strewn farmhouse in Norfolk with her tempestuous poet father and unconventional mother. ' A funny, though sometimes melancholy, story of irresponsible and drunken bohemianism. To write well and with such open-hearted affection is an achievement' Observer The classic story of a chaotic, creative family
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