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Name: A Girl Could Stand Up

Author: Leslie Marshall
Year: 2003
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When six-year-old Elray reaches up to touch the moon in the Tunnel of Love, she narrowly escapes a freak electric current that claims the lives of both her parents. Suddenly orphaned, she is left stunned and mute, until two loving but undomesticated uncles step in.

Cross-dressing Uncle Ajax insists on being addressed as 'Aunt'; Uncle Harwood is a macho photographer, full of swagger and fond of drink. When the deceptively sweet Irish lawyer Rena moves in to mount a lucrative lawsuit against the fairground, the eccentric household becomes the very model of family life reinvented.

Surprising and wise, A Girl Could Stand Up is a novel bristling with charm.Marshall's exuberant imagination enchants the reader, while a deep current of wisdom lends ballast to an exhilarating story.