The Tulip Touch is a children's novel by Anne Fine published in 1996.
Natalie lives with her family: her father, who is a hotel manager, and her mother, who lavishes attention on her younger brother Julius. They go to live at a hotel called 'The Palace' and Natalie meets a strange girl called Tulip, cradling a kitten. Later in the book Natalie finds out that Tulip drowns the kitten. They become friends. Tulip easily charms Natalie's family and th...
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The Tulip Touch is a children's novel by Anne Fine published in 1996.
Natalie lives with her family: her father, who is a hotel manager, and her mother, who lavishes attention on her younger brother Julius. They go to live at a hotel called 'The Palace' and Natalie meets a strange girl called Tulip, cradling a kitten. Later in the book Natalie finds out that Tulip drowns the kitten. They become friends. Tulip easily charms Natalie's family and the hotel guests, partly due to sympathy: Tulip's father abuses her (and drowns the kitten).
They play various games, all invented by Tulip: from watching the sky through a hotel skylight, to making strangers fear they smell (by subtly sniffing etc). At first she finds Tulip exciting and she doesn't care that other people are upset by her pranks. But then Natalie realises that Tulip is going too far she decides to stop being friends with her
Natalie finally breaks away from Tulip, but admits to herself that she misses Tulip. She manages to make...
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