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"elegant... delicate meditation on the cyclical nature of history, and the strength of communities" -- Observer
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This is the end of the road, but if you turn around, it's the beginning ...
Everything is connected, somehow. In the small rural community of Deloume Road, deep in the remote beauty of Vancouver Island, the inhabitants have their individual secrets, their unique anxieties. So many of them seem alien to one another - a pregnant Korean widowed by a faraway war; a lonely Ukrainian immigrant butcher; a Native American artist. But even here, there are fragile bonds and affinities which hold people together.
There are also more sinister connections. In the intense August heat, the local kids, Matthew, Andy and Josh, spend their time on bicycles, exploring the woods and secret places, ignoring the ghostly boy Miles Ford, who's almost invisible anyway. Soon, though, a chance discovery sets off a terrible sequence of events, forever entwining these young lives with that of Gerard Deloume, the town's long-dead founder.
A magical, haunting novel, Deloume Road is a journey into a community whose stories you will never forget.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The pace of this novel feels relaxed and slow - even dreamlike as it flits between the different characters and takes you face-to-face with the narrator, slowly building up a complete picture of the community - yet I couldn't stop reading it. The first thing that really grabs you is the style of the prose and how tangible it makes the world of Deloume Road seem - the smells and sounds and feel of the place - but it's the story itself that keeps you hooked as the different lives weave around each other. The story of the children, who take centre-stage in this novel, is perhaps the most addictive, at the same time chilling and yet also leaving you with an aching sense of nostalgia.
An incredible story, and one I would recommend to anyone.
An incredible story, and one I would recommend to anyone.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Deloume Road is a Beautiful written book. It feels to read, like looking through old family photographs, at once nostalgic, melancholic and inspiring. The perfect Sunday afternoon escape from our all too hectic world.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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This book tries to be atmospheric and to show rather than tell you about the various characters. However I desperately needed a map or something to keep it straight about who lived where on this road. It was made even more confusing as sometimes chapters were set in the past, with the present day character's ancestors. The main characters are four boys, two brothers one of whom has a learning disability, this is never defined. Then there is the older brother's friend, and the outsider boy who lives next door. It ends with a tragedy, which is hinted at throughout the book.
Unfortunately I found it hard to keep the character's straight, so found it hard to care. It left me with an overall curiosity as to whether the social services in Canada are truly this bad, because surely they should have intervened?
An okay read when you are stuck, but not really recommended by me.
Unfortunately I found it hard to keep the character's straight, so found it hard to care. It left me with an overall curiosity as to whether the social services in Canada are truly this bad, because surely they should have intervened?
An okay read when you are stuck, but not really recommended by me.
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Well written but unexpected 'horror' offputting
I initially liked the way this was written - until I got to one particularly horrific description and had to put the book down because it was such a chilling image. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Mrs. Fiona Wilton
Still waters run very, very deep
Deloume Road is a masterpiece, but like those giant pictures that Rolf Harris used to paint, you can only really see what it is when it's finished. Read more
Published 8 months ago by MisterHobgoblin
An atypical coming-of-age
This coming-of-age story focuses on four boys, three of whom are close, and one who is on the outside of their social circle. Read more
Published 9 months ago by littlepig littlepig
Far Away Summer
An evocation of those long Summer holidays you had as a child: hot sunshine, hard rain, playing in streams and pools in the woodland you explored as you venuted further from home. Read more
Published 9 months ago by M. J. Saxton
Dissapointing
I really didn't enjoy this book. In fact, I only finished it because I was reviewing it for the Amazon Vine programme, and felt I shouldn't just give up! Read more
Published 10 months ago by A. Lucas
Paths through the, as yet uncleared, forest wander and confuse.
I chose this book because I have family living on Vancouver Island and I love to read about it. Matthew Hooton grew up there. This, his debut novel, has received high praise. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Mrs. Katharine Kirby
Beautiful, beguiling, horrifying
This is a minutely observed, lyrical and ultimately shocking story about four boys in a Canadian backwater one long, hot summer. Read more
Published 10 months ago by M. Harrison
This story will come back to haunt you time and time again
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Set in a remote community on Vancouver Island during the month of August, it tells in short chapters,the stories of many of the members of that... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Mrs. V. Bradley
An excellent read
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. The story revolves around the residents of Deloume Road on Vancouver Island. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Freckles
Really good new writer
This novel has a patchwork quilt of characters, all based in a small community on Vancouver Island, at the dead-end of Deloume Road. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Mr. M Errington
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