Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
6.3
Points
19.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
119117
Points per Word
0.00016
Description
In this fictionalised biography, the author follows the thread of history and memory into imagination to tell the story of her mother, Poppy, who married at twenty and sang to her children, until suddenly one day, she was taken away to a sanatorium.