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  • Published: 24 March 2005
  • ISBN: 9780141927404
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 416

The Whispering Road




Livi Michael is the author of the best-selling Frank series - starring everyone's favourite hamster hero

A moving and powerful story about brother and sister, Joe and Annie, who flee from a pitiful existence as servants. They embark on a tough and perilous journey to Manchester in search of their mother who was forced to leave them at the workhouse when they were very young. Their future is tainted by the horrors of their past and as Annie is increasingly troubled by spirits, Joe is forced to make a tough decision. Driven by the lust for freedom, he sells Annie to a fair owner who plans to use her as a medium, and sets about creating a new identity for himself on the streets of Manchester. But the voices of the past won't leave Joe alone and ultimately he finds himself gravitating back to Annie and their original quest to discover the whereabouts of their mother.

  • Published: 24 March 2005
  • ISBN: 9780141927404
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 416

About the authors

Michael Livi

Date: 2013-08-06
Livi Michael has writtten two previous novels: Under a Thin Moon, which won the Arthur Welton Award in 1992, and Their Angel Reach, which won the 1995 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Society of Authors Award, and was shortlisted for the John Steinbeck and John Llewellyn Rhys Awards. She lives in Lancashire with the poet Ian Pople and their two sons.

Livi Michael has published four novels for adults: Under a Thin Moon which won the Arthur Welton award in 1992, Their Angel Reach which won the Faber prize in 1995, All the Dark Air (1997) which was short-listed for the Mind Award, and Inheritance, which won a Society of Authors award. Livi has two sons and lives in Greater Manchester. She teaches literature part-time at the Manchester Metropolitan University and has been a senior lecturer in creative writing at Sheffield Hallam University.