Book description
Emily Iris looks forward to the times her parents welcome house
guests to their family's unhappy home. As long as the visitors are
there, her mother and father will put their quarrels aside. But one
spring a family of wanderers an Australian couple and their two boys
comes to stay, starting a chain of events that will shatter Emily's
world forever.
Will appeal to readers of Jennifer Donnelly's A Gathering
Light and Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible.
On hardback publication this fabulous first novel attracted stunning acclaim.
Every now and then a book comes along that's unusual, compelling and
deeply absorbing yet is so tragically simple, it leaves an indelible
trace on the memory. The Year the Gypsies Came is one of these Linzi
Glass was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and moved to the United
States as a young adult. She has published articles, and written plays,
screenplays, short stories and now novels
The Year the Gypsies Came
and
Ruby Red
. She lives in Los Angeles with her teenage daughter, Jordan.
