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For readers of “Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine” and “Remarkably Bright Creatures”, this tender and funny debut novel about one little girl's obsession with a mysterious manuscript is a love letter to language, how it shapes the world for each of us and connects us all in the end.
Before she thinks of herself as Little Alien, our narrator is only a lonely little girl living in southeast England, who doesn't understand the world the way other children seem to. So, when a late-night TV special introduces her to the mysterious Voynich Manuscript, an ancient tome written in an indecipherable language, Little Alien experiences something she hasn't before: hope. Could there be others like her, who also feel like they're from another planet?
Convinced the Voynich Manuscript holds the answers she needs, Little Alien and her best (and only) friend Bobby decide they must find this strange book. Where that decision leads them will change everything.
Narrated by an unexpected guide who has arrived to offer Little Alien the advice she'll need to find her way, “Life Hacks for a Little Alien” explores a less-usual experience of the world, inviting us into the head of a child who doesn't read her surroundings the way we might assume. Ringing with voice, humor, and heart, Alice Franklin will have you swinging from stitches to tears on the uneven path to finding a life that fits, even when you yourself do not.
Before she thinks of herself as Little Alien, our narrator is only a lonely little girl living in southeast England, who doesn't understand the world the way other children seem to. So, when a late-night TV special introduces her to the mysterious Voynich Manuscript, an ancient tome written in an indecipherable language, Little Alien experiences something she hasn't before: hope. Could there be others like her, who also feel like they're from another planet?
Convinced the Voynich Manuscript holds the answers she needs, Little Alien and her best (and only) friend Bobby decide they must find this strange book. Where that decision leads them will change everything.
Narrated by an unexpected guide who has arrived to offer Little Alien the advice she'll need to find her way, “Life Hacks for a Little Alien” explores a less-usual experience of the world, inviting us into the head of a child who doesn't read her surroundings the way we might assume. Ringing with voice, humor, and heart, Alice Franklin will have you swinging from stitches to tears on the uneven path to finding a life that fits, even when you yourself do not.
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Sally Phillips's heartfelt performance of this novel has perfect pacing and inflection. From Little Alien's first attempt at language, listeners sense something extraordinary about her. The story's narrator, an analytical linguist, breaks down Little Alien's sentences with empathy, while Phillips's detached tone and well-timed pauses emphasize the complexities of English and the narrator's snarky
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