Book description
It's a long hot summer - to Permanent Rose it seems never ending. Rose
misses Tom, Indigo's friend who went back to America. New friend David
is not a good enough replacement. Caddy's fiancee, Michael, tries to
cheer her up by delivering a rose every day, but that just provides
temporary relief. What with Daddy leaving her mother Eve for younger
model Samantha, Caddy getting cold feet and adoptive sister Saffron
deciding to find her real father, no one seems to have time to come to
Rose's rescue. But Rose is determined, and in her heart of hearts is
sure she will find Tom again - but what else will she find on the way?
Hilary McKay won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize with her first
novel, The Exiles. Her subsequent work has achieved recognition: The
Exiles at Home won the Smarties Prize, whilst Saffy's Angel, the first
in the Casson Family series, won the Whitbread Award, for which the
third book, Permanent Rose, was also shortlisted.
