![]() ![]() She intends to pursue her dream of becoming a writer. ![]() She has won a full scholarship to a University in New York but needs to raise enough money for books and the train fare. Mattie’s story is split between her recent past with her family and her present working at a hotel. The author had a grandmother who worked as a waitress at this hotel which lends the fictional half of the narrative a ring of truth.The book was received well by critics and won The Carnegie Medal in 2003 for outstanding young adult fiction. While historical fiction, the book uses the real case of ‘Grace Brown’ who was murdered in the early 1900’s while she was staying at a hotel with her boyfriend. Book: A Gathering Light (also known as A Northern Light in the US)Ī Gathering Light (or A Northern Light in the US) is a coming of age story and murder mystery by Jennifer Donnelly that tells the story of Mattie Gokey. ![]()
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