Goggle-eyes

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Goggle-eyes

Author: Anne Fine
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Publisher: Puffin Books
Kitty Killin is not only a good storyteller but also the World's Expert when it comes to mothers having new and unwanted boyfriends. That's why she's sent to talk to Helly Johnston in the dark privacy of the lost property cupboard, and why she tells the story of her mother and Gerald Faulkner.
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Winner of the Carnegie Medal 1990 and "The Guardian" Children's Fiction Award 1990, this book is about Kitty, who hates her mother's boyfriend. Yet when he leaves, she finds she misses him. Anne Fine has also written "Madame Doubtfire", short-listed for the Young Observer Teenage Fiction Prize.

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