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|title=The Weight of Water

|sort=Weight of Water

|borrow=Yes

|isbn=978-1408823002

|pages=240

|publisher=Bloomsbury

|date=January 2012

|website=http://www.sarahcrossan.com/

|summary=Leaving Poland with a suitcase and an old laundry bag, Kasienka and her mother come to England to find her father, and end up finding much more.

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Kasienka's Dad is gone, leaving only a brief note to say he'd gone to England. Its two years after his departure, and Kasienka and her mother are moving to England to find him. With nothing but a suitcase and an old laundry bag, they leave Poland and their lives behind. But England isn't what Kasienka imagined, living in a single room, and sharing a bed with her mum, she longs to return to Poland. At home her mother throws herself into finding Kasienka's Dad, heartbroken that he left them; at school Kasienka finds herself a target of bullying.

This book is magical; written in verse it flows effortlessly. The thing with novels-in-verse is that they are very different from poetry, yet very different from prose. Because of its format you can absorb it in no time at all, and it focus' on key moments rather than there being lots of description – a little goes a long way.

This is an amazing and poignant book, that is so beautifully written that I didn't even realise I had finished it until I had turned the last page.

Thank you to the nice people at Bloomsbury for my copy of this book.

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