- Hardcover: 143 pages
- Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd; 1st edition (7 Jan 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1856812057
- ISBN-13: 978-1856812054
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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A combination of ghost story and modern underworld mystery written by the author of "Sea Skater", which won the Alice Hunt Barlett Prize and "The Raw Garden" which was a Poetry Book Society Choice.
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Having read Helen Dunmore's other books - child and adult, this was an immense disappointment. It attempts to be a mystery, a ghost story, historical social commentary and a contemporary crime and justice story - all in the space of 143 pages. And fails.
It is written through the eyes and in the words of a young boy, which given Dunmore's usual excellence at creating characters starts promisingly. The narrators character, however, along with the other characters in the story, never quite seems to work. There are some surprises in the story line - and some nice touches of detail, but not enough to rescue what is an otherwise predictable and unsuccesful story.
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