One of an innovative new series of linked stories designed to build reader confidence. Nobody wants to play with Lucy on her first day in school, so her teacher gives her some chalks and Lucy begins to draw animals on the playground. She doesn't notice Zack and Ibrahim sitting at opposite ends of a nearby bench, watching her.
‘Suppose I was to come to you and tell you, oh, I don't know...’ I pretend to look up at the ceiling and think. ‘Suppose I was to come to you and say that St. Peter is visiting me every night. What would you say?’ ‘Is he, Maggie?’ ‘Pardon?’‘Is St. Peter visiting you every night?’Those brown eyes shine with compassion. And I completely blow it, starting to shake. ‘Yes,’ I say, ‘he is.’Maggie White has a problem. It’s not her nightmare commute, the difficult tampon launch or the fact that her marriage is on the rocks. No, Maggie’s real problem is that Saint Peter is visiting her in the bedroom every night…and he looks like Sean Connery. He’s got a PR problem or, more accurately, Jesus does. Now it’s Maggie’s problem, too.Outrageously funny and unashamedly hopeful, The Saint Who Loved Me is a dazzling, compassionate and intelligent look at the modern world and how we live in it.
A first children's title from a prize-winning poet and author of adult books. A novel exploring a young boy's grief, set against a colourful background of surfing. schovat popis