I loved this book, and I am extremly hard to please.
It was bought for me by a friend who happened to pick it up in a bookshop, read the first few lines and leg it to the tills, fast. He's now taken to buying it for everyone he
knows who likes books and I think that I will do the same.
From the second I picked it up, I was completly inthralled,I read it from cover to cover in one sitting without moving. Meg Rosoff's prose is staggeringly beautiful, moving and evocative, her characters instantly exsist in your mind and on every page you will find a sentance that makes you stop reading and just stare.
I'm glad though, that I hadn't read the synopsis here, anyone who has read it will understand my huge shock as the situation the characters find themselfs
in becomes clear. I never knew where this book was going for one second. At one point it is a dreamy, languid love story, at another a moving tale of family understanding and devotion, another, the story of teenage emotion and confusion, then it becomes a genuinly terrifying battle against an unnamed enemy, then a shocking, visceral tale of violence. I can't quite see how this is a book
just for young adults, allthough the main protagonist is a teenagerthe themes are relevent to all ages. This is a fabulous book, and most people I know have read it all in one or two sittings.
Please read it, you won't regret it.
On, another note, the hardback edition is very lovely and worth
the extra quids if you like that sort of thing.
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