How to Stop a Heart from Beating

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How to Stop a Heart from Beating is written by Jackie Ballantyne and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1775532046 (ISBN 10) and 9781775532040 (ISBN 13).

Brilliantly capturing the voice and perspective of a young girl, this is a heart-warming, lively, funny and intriguing novel. The year 1961 is a pivotal one for nine-year-old Solly McKeen. She is a loner in a family of doubles: a ‘single’ with no twin of her own, and seen as a bit of an oddity by everyone in her dairy-farming community in South Otago. On learning about the unnamed paupers’ graves in the local cemetery, she promises to people them: imagining characters, names and causes of death for each. While Solly unravels death and fills in the blanks on the gravestones, she unwittingly uncovers family secrets.