Davis, Brooke
Davis, Brooke Millie Bird is seven-years-old. Her mum never returns.Agatha Pantha is eighty-two and hasn’t left home since her husband died. On a shopping trip with her mum,Millie is left alone…
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Davis, Brooke
Millie Bird is seven-years-old. Her mum never returns.Agatha Pantha is eighty-two and hasn’t left home since her husband died. On a shopping trip with her mum,Millie is left alone beneath the Ginormous Women’s underwear rack in a department store.
Until the day Agatha spies a little girl across the street.Karl the Touch Typist is eighty-seven and in a nursing home. Instead, she fills the silence by yelling at passers-by, watching loud static on TV, and maintaining a strict daily schedule. He remembers how he once typed love letters with his fingers on to his wife’s skin.
Now widowed, he knows that somehow he must find a way for life to begin again. In a moment of clarity, he escapes.Together, Millie, Agatha and Karl set out to find Millie’s mum. And along the way, they will discover that the young can be wise, that old age is not the same as death, and that breaking the rules once in a while might just be the key to a happy life.