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The Broken Mirror (Hardcover)
Jonathan Coe; Illustrated by Chiara Coccorese
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Can desire really transform reality? From award-winning novelist
Jonathan Coe and distinguished Italian artist Chiara Coccorese
comes The Broken Mirror, a political parable for children, a
contemporary fairy tale for adults, and a fable for all ages. One
day Claire, to escape her quarrelsome parents, takes refuge in the
dump behind her house. There she finds a broken mirror, a nasty
piece of sharp glass... yet she is strangely drawn to it. She soon
discovers it has the power to transform even the most drab reality
into a fairy-tale world: the grey sky is reflected blue, and
Claire's modest, suburban house is transformed into the most
beautiful castle. As Claire grows older, always accompanied by her
magic mirror, she can see her face without her teenage acne, and
her town before it fell victim to thieving property developers.
But, in reality, libraries are being turned into luxury flats
wherever she looks, and the boy Claire loves is instead her worst
enemy. Frustrated and angry with the mirror's illusions, Claire is
about to destroy it when the mysterious Peter steps in: he has also
found a shard of broken mirror, and so begins their journey to
piece together the larger puzzle... Previously published in
Italian, French, Greek and Dutch, The Broken Mirror comes to life
in English for the first time, to be read with equal pleasure by
children and adults.
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