About this ebook
When her husband dies, Lu Si-yan's mother is encouraged to sell her young daughter into domestic service. Lu Si-yan is just eleven when sold by her uncle. Nearly two years will pass before she can get back home to her mother and brother. In this powerful and compelling novel Sally Grindley portrays the life of a young girl in China, a young girl whose life is said to be like 'spilled water'.
With a brilliant first-person narrative and a powerful description of time and place, this novel is gripping, heart-wrenching and utterly mesmerising.
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4.9
10 reviews
Iraj Wijesinghe
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June 24, 2014
Wonderful book but very sad. My favourite book in the whole world!
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Rosie Coombs
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January 16, 2017
Already read it in year five but now I really am into reading since I joined high school
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Shanice Tuitt-George
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December 30, 2013
Its a really good book but its sad
About the author
Sally Grindley lives in Cheltenham and has worked in children's books all her career - first as an editor for Books for Children book club and now as a full-time writer. Sally is the author of many outstanding picture books for young readers and this is her second novel. Sally travelled to China to research Spilled Water.
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