Before the earthquake
By: Maria Allen
Publisher: Tindal Street
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Birmingham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9781906994044
Subjects: Earthquakes; Fiction; Teenage pregnancy; Families; Social aspects
Description: At the turn of the 20th century, the Salierno family make a living as farmers in mountainous and volcanic terrain in Italy. When an earthquake devastates their village, Concetta, their 15 year old daughter, is seriously injured. On waking from a coma, she must solve the mystery of what happened in the weeks before the earthquake.