Goodbye Day

The story, in her own words, of a day in the life of twelve-year-old Coral Sands. A rather eventful day which starts with the discovery of a note from Dad, 'Sands running out', and continues through a variety of incident and encounters as Coral tries to find him and bring him back. The plot creaks a bit - Dad's motivation is very thin and a lot depends on Coral not understanding what miscarriage means; but the telling is lively, easy to read and often funny. There is also good collection of 'characters', Grandma, sister Jasmine and boyfriend Kevin, Old Wally, Jenny and Sonny from school, and a back-to-back Manchester setting.