By:
Margaret Mahy
Grade Level:
It is the late 1980’s in New Zealand as the novel opens with nineteen-year-old Johnny Dart who is stumbling around late at night, bruised from a bar fight and very drunk. This is his attempt to drown the memories of his older sister Janine who died exactly five years ago. He is outside the childhood home of Bonny Benedicta who, along with Johnny, is one of the two witnesses to Janine’s fatal fall from a cliff to the sea below.
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