- Paperback: 368 pages
- Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd; New edition edition (7 Nov 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0099436124
- ISBN-13: 978-0099436126
- Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11.4 x 3.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,416,147 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio Cassette
This is one of Rosie Thomas's best works. The story follows a father and his two daughters after their move to the beach. The younger of the daughters is struggling with adolesence and is trying to find herself and does so through a haunting secret she discovers in the house. Thoroughly enjoyable reading and Rosie Thomas really makes you feel like you are part of the cast.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is the first Rosie Thomas book I've read and although I enjoyed it, it didn't really grab me. The characters seemed rather 2D, but as the book wore on, I did care what happened to May (the lead). I liked Rosie Thomas's style of writing but I think I would need to read another one of her books to decide whether or not I liked her as an author. The overall word to describe this book would be 'ethereal'.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
When I looked at the cover for this book, it sounded so lyrical and beautiful, I grabbed it. It was quite disappointing, however. I found the prose style quite irritating - it read as if the author was in the middle of a creative writing course. It starts off with lots of description so you're frustrated by lack of characterisation and then stumbles around from one character's viewpoint to another so it's hard to get engrossed. Eventually, I grew to enjoy the characters and the story - it was the author's style that I found rather a strain. It made me realise just how brilliant Cathy Kelly is, for example, with 'Someone Like you; - she deals with lots of characters and slips smoothly from one to another, gracefully weaving them together in an apparently effortless way. Definitely Kelly is to be preferred.
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