Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms

The story is about a young girl named Wilhelmina, nicknamed Will, who grew up in Zimbabwe and was sent to England after her father's death. There she is treated poorly at a boarding school and decides to escape and survive on the streets of London. Even a life on the untamed plains of Africa can’t prepare Wilhelmina for the wilds of an English boarding school in this lovely and lyrical novel from the author of