The Icarus girl

Helen Oyeyemi

Original title: Icarus Girl, The

earliest edition we have, 2005 El Aleph Editores, 2005 hardcover 336 pages

Jessamy "Jess" Harrison, age eight, is the child of an English father and a Nigerian mother. Possessed of an extraordinary imagination, she has a hard time fitting in at school. It is only when she visits Nigeria for the first time that she makes a friend who understands her: a ragged little girl named TillyTilly. But soon TillyTilly's visits become more disturbing, until Jess realizes she doesn't actually know who h...

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Editions we hold

Icarus Girl edition · 2013 · Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 9781408846384
The Icarus girl edition · 2006 · Anchor Books · 337 pages · 9781299003255
Icarus Girl paperback · 2006 · Penguin Canada · 320 pages · 9780143017769
The Icarus Girl paperback · 2006 · BLOOMSBURY · 336 pages · 9780747578864
The Icarus girl edition · 2005 · Anchor Books · 337 pages · 9781400078752
The Icarus girl edition · 2005 · Nan A. Talese · 337 pages
The Icarus girl edition · 2005 · Bloomsbury · 305 pages
The Icarus girl edition · 2005 · Viking Canada · 337 pages
Het Icarus meisje edition · 2005 · Cargo · 9789023416586
Das Ikarus Mädchen hardcover · 2005 · Bloomsbury · 9783827005663
Icarus Girl, The paperback · 2005 · Bloomsbury Publishing PLC · 9780739462058
The Icarus girl edition · 2005 · Nan A. Talese · 258 pages · 9780307428738

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