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Saffy’s Angel Book Review
The author of this book is Hilary McKay and was published by Aladdin Paperbacks. The book is about 160 pages long and the setting of the most of the book is in a small town in Europe, (for the beginning of the book) then they later go to Sienna, Italy.
It's rare for a book to present the true chaos of a big family (or maybe I just haven’t read enough books). This book gets the details right--the chaos and clutter, and the independence of the children, even to preparing their own meals. Granted, four children don't really make a very big family, but this book captures the idea.
The four Casson children, whose mother, Eve, is a fine-arts painter, have all been given the names of paint colors. Cadmium (Caddy), is the eldest; then Saffron (Saffy); Indigo, the only boy; and Rose, the youngest. Saffy is the main character in our person versus society fiction novel. She isn’t very talkative or socially involved and she is more reserved than outgoing,......

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