Filippo, Me and the Cherry Tree

A moving sequel to The Distance Between Me and the Cherry Tree.

A powerful, uplifting and moving story of a teenage girl’s battle against losing her sight and keeping her friendships. 
Mafalda is thirteen and has been blind since she was ten. Her best friend is the cheerfully rule-breaking Filippo, and she is accompanied everywhere by Ottimo Turcaret, her devoted cat. Mafalda is always looking on the bright side. But she worries about her father who has lost his job and is now in the depths of depression; and the horrible girl in school, Debbie, who seems interested in Filippo.

Then two new adults come into her life: Elsa, a homeless young woman, and Signor Nino, the elderly upstairs neighbour with an awful temper and a great passion for Charles Dickens. Little by little, Mafalda learns their stories, and how their lives had also been shaped by brave and difficult choices.

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