When nine year old Swiv is kicked out of school for fighting, she finds she doesn’t mind very much. At home, classes include Poached Egg and How to Dig a Winter Grave, and her Grandma is a lively – if exasperating – teacher. Swiv isn’t the only member of her family who has been fighting.

Grandma has fought her whole life: for her independence, for her spirit, and for her children. And, as Swiv will learn, her mother is a woman who knows intimately what it can cost to survive in this world, and is battling – painfully, ferociously – on every front.

Format: Paperback
Published: UK, 2021
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Pages: 336
Language: English
ISBN 13: 9780571370726
ISBN 10: 0571370721