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Selected by Publishing News as Title of the Month for May 2005 "This is an atmospheric and beguiling book, written with a precision which guards it from sentimentality." HELEN DUNMORE "Acutely observed, tender, funny and very moving." MICHAEL FOREMAN "Gussie fairly fizzles with vitality, radiating fun and enjoyment into everything that comes her way. Her life may be predestined to be short but not short on wonder, glee, the love of things as they really are ... I hope Gussie's story sells a trillion, zillion copies. It deserves to." MICHAEL BAYLEY "I started reading it this morning before breakfast and ignored hunger pangs to finish it in great sadness. It's quite beautifully done." SUE BAKER, PUBLISHING NEWS
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Acutely observed, tender, funny and very moving.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
One of the best new books I've read in recent years,
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This review is from: The Burying Beetle (Paperback)
This is the story of a 12 year old girl with a congenital heart defect which could quite possibly kill her very soon. To ease the strain on her heart, her mother moves the two of them to a remote cottage on the Cornish coast. As plot goes not much happens in this book - it is essentially a perfect creation of a richly complex individual, and a study of life, death, loneliness and hope. As the story is primarily centred round a single character's day-to-day existence, it incorporates a captivating, extremely personal inner monologue, drawing readers into her interest in the natural world and keen observation of unusual language.In tone and style this is something of a cross between The Curious Incident of The Dog In The Nighttime, and The Lovely Bones, but claims its own stake as a gorgeous, luxuriant work of fiction; and once you are finished you will want to read it right over again.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Wrong narrative voice,
By Dan Gleebits (Devon, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Burying Beetle (Paperback)
This would have been more successful if it had some sort of plot. That would have been a distraction from the meandering narrative of, not an eleven / twelve year old girl, but that of a (however old the author is) adult woman pretending to be a young girl. The author's also a poet, and there is some strong imagery in here which is clearly informed by that. One swallow, though, does not make a summer. I was not convinced by some of the dialogue, and the Mum was a clichéd, embittered proto-divorcée which has been done to death in far too many other books. I'm not usually one to baulk at bad language, but there was no place for it here.
A good book should have a beginning, a middle, and an end. This was the middle.
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