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Katie Harnett.
Gathering diary entries from her childhood, foster kid Ira chronicles how "life got exciting" for herself and her younger brother, Zac, when they moved into London children's home Skilly House in 1987. A quiet, emotion-driven episodic novel about family and finding a home, with a narrator so sincere that readers will stay invested until the very end.