'Evokes a childhood in warmer climes... Written with immense tenderness, My Sweet Orange Tree eschews simple nostalgia for a deeper, unsentimental portrait of a childhood... so sad it would be a hard-hearted reader who doesn't shed a tear... will appeal to adult readers as much as, perhaps even more than - any older child' -- Irish Times 'This is a story full of sorrowful tenderness. Little Zeze is so likeable and he will stay with me for ever' -- Cao Wenxuan, winner of the Hans Christian Andersen Prize 'New readers, young and old, will delight in the beautifully bittersweet tale... A near-perfect child's-eye view of life, one that has the power to both warm and break hearts, whatever the age of the reader' -- The National 'Tender, joyful... It will suit thoughtful readers of 10-plus down to the ground' --Guardian