199 pages
English language
Published May 14, 2002 by Delacorte Press.
Secret heart
by David Almond
5 stars
(1 review)
Living with his mother in a small village on the edge of the suburbs, shy, often inarticulate, Joe Maloney frequently dreams of a beautiful, elusive tiger whose significance begins to be clear after he befriends a young trapeze artist who comes to town with a shabby traveling circus.
Subjects
- Self-perception -- Fiction.
- Friendship -- Fiction.
- Human-animal relationships -- Fiction.
- Circus -- Fiction.