The ACB With Honora Lee

Perry's mother and father are busy people a they're impatient, they're tired, they get cross easily. And they think only children, like Perry, should be kept busy with plenty of activities and other people in their lives. Perry would prefer a dog. But there is no dog they're far too messy just week after week full to the brim with after-school activities: piano, clarinet, homework tutoring, Movement class a On Saturday mornings Perry and her father visit Gran at Bower House, but Gran never remembers them. 'Who is that man?' Veronica Lee asks when Perry's father leaves the room. After Movement class is abruptly cancelled, Perry is allowed to go to Bower House on Thursday afternoons. She takes discovers her Gran has an unconventional interest in the alphabet so Perry decides to make an alphabet book with the help of Veronica Lee and the others. Soon everyone is interested in Perry's book project. Kate De Goldi's The ACB of Veronica Lee unfolds with characteristic warmth, quirky, surprising humour and a rich cast of 'residents'. The story is a meditation on kindness and patience and acceptance; that of the very young and the very old. It's a story that will resonant with echoes of recollection for many u from Perry's endearing and perceptive child's perspective on the adult world to the embracing kindness of those who care for the elderly.