![]() ![]() ![]() It finished the competition as the runner-up, making the last vote against the eventual winner, Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroes. His 2004 novel Fruit was selected for inclusion in the 2009 edition of Canada Reads, where it was championed by novelist and CBC Radio One personality Jen Sookfong Lee. The Author: Brian Francis is a Canadian writer. Publisher: Harper Perennial (August 2, 2005) Hilarious and exquisitely touching, this is the funniest and most memorable novel you'll read all year.Īmazon: The Secret Fruit of Peter Paddington: A Novel (P.S.) But it isn't easy to change who you really are, and Peter, ready or not, is finally forced to confront his secret self. Peter knows that if he could just lose weight, develop a brand-new personality, and get rid of those pesky talking nipples, he'd be able to find the acceptance he desperately craves. As if that wasn't bad enough, Peter's nipples pop out one day and begin speaking to him, threatening to expose his private fantasies to an unkind world. He's 204 pounds, at the mercy of an overactive imagination, and his only friend is a trash-talking beauty queen reject from across the street. ![]() Elisa_rolle The Book: Peter Paddington is your typical thirteen-year-old paperboy with a few exceptions. ![]()
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