Movies Showing Nowhere

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A prizewinning middle grade fantasy adventure about memories, loss and time travel

On the day Cato came into the world, her mother left it. Cato’s dad has been a mere shadow of a person ever since, and Cato has given up reaching out to him. When she finds a mysterious card from an abandoned movie theatre and discovers it has reopened, Cato decides to go take a look. There appears to be something strange about the cinema. The movies showing there are no ordinary movies and somehow the cinema seems to be in connection with the past…
Looking for adventure and the truth about her mother, Cato is swept into a dangerous journey through time and memories, straight to a place deep within her heart. A place she had always managed to keep locked away. And then she faces a choice that will change her life, and that of her father, forever.Yorick Goldewijk is a Dutch author and illustrator, as well as a musician who writes music for films, television and computer games. Movies Showing Nowhere won the Golden Pencil Prize for the best Dutch children’s book of the year and was shortlisted for the Flemish Boon Literature Prize.

Laura Watkinson is a full-time, prize-winning translator from Dutch, Italian and German. She lives in Amsterdam.GB

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