Talking in Animal

"A wry, engaging study....Change is in the air, and Siobhan Hannah, 11, doesn't much like it; not only has a new family, the Graces, moved into the cottage she had earmarked as a future collie kennel, but Mr. Grace is about to marry her older friend, Maddy, and she finds herself really having to struggle to dislike Mr. Grace's daughter, Lester....In spare conversations and observations, Farish artfully captures the changeable weather of Siobhan's emotional denial and acceptance, anger and resignation, joy and despair."--Kirkus Reviews.