Author: Coppard, Yvonne:
Title: The Rag Bag Family.
Description: London, The Bodley Head, 1993. 1st Ed., H/B glazed pict. bds, VG, minor scuffs at spine tips and corners, ex-lib. so usual markings, but minimal, contents tight and clean, pges just yellowing, hinge just cracking at front. A nice copy of this scarce title. Thirteen-year-old Rita has lived all her life with her grandmother. The world they have created, a world which to outsiders seems old-fashioned, is shattered when her grandmother is rushed off to hospital. Rita has then to cope with the chaos of a foster family and ultimately the return of the mother who abandoned her as a baby...

Keywords: family, grandmother, child, mother, relationships, teenagers, foster parents, life, resentment, juvenile, fiction, novel, story, tale, children's.