King’s authorial voice shines through Pea, as her skillful narration is childishly authentic without being cloying or cutesy. King’s debut is a poetic, engaging story with a slow-burning plot set in the idyllic French countryside. When Pea meets a stranger and his dog in the meadow, she discovers a series of secrets in his dusty house that affects her entire world. After Pea’s father passed away from a sudden heart attack, Pea’s mother seems to have given up on all but the basic upkeep of the house, herself, and Pea. anything to stay out of her very pregnant mother’s way. Practicing cartwheels in the meadow behind her house, picking blackberries from the bramble bushes, feeding the chickens in the coop.
Five-and-a-half-year-old Peony-Pea for short-has become awfully good at entertaining herself.
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