Songs For Ghosts

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Clara Kumagai is from Canada, Japan and Ireland. Recipient of a We Need Diverse Books Award Mentorship, Clara is also a finalist for the Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writers Award, a Yoto Carnegie 2024 nominee and shortlisted for the KPMG Children's Book Ireland Award. Clara has been chosen by The Irish Independent as a Top 20 Irish Kid's Book of 2023, as well as a Best Book of 2023 by The Irish Times, the Observer and Waterstones. clarakumagai.com Twitter/Instagram:@clarakiyoko

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From Catfish Rolling's Clara Kumagai, a second novel full of longing, love and heartbreak, inspired by Puccini's Madame Butterfly.
17-year-old Adam has just broken up with his boyfriend Evan and is not looking forward to the excruciating awkwardness at school for the rest of term or a whole summer stuck at home with his dad, step mum and baby brother, Benji. But then Adam discovers a diary in some boxes in the attic and is quickly enthralled by their poignant story. They were written by a young woman in Nagasaki in 1911. Adam is enraptured by her life and loves, becoming totally absorbed in her story. Then he starts to be haunted by her ghostly presence.