- Hardcover: 192 pages
- Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Ltd; First Edition edition (13 Nov 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0241135516
- ISBN-13: 978-0241135518
- Product Dimensions: 22.1 x 14.5 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,735,460 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Hero finds it a strain being part of a talented, highly articulate family, so she takes refuge in a fantasy world refusing to speak. One day Hero meets Miss Credence. She soon realizes she is being taken along an increasingly dark and frightening path.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is a lovely book,a bit of mystery ,daily family life and suspense!
The mainfigure is a young girl and we follow the events through her brain/eyes. It seems like a young adult or teeners book. But I am older! And I really like it.
The mainfigure is a young girl and we follow the events through her brain/eyes. It seems like a young adult or teeners book. But I am older! And I really like it.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The idea behind this story seemed to me full of potential: a girl born to a "word family", with her Mom and siblings all very talkative and smart, finds her special gift in silence. She loves to think of herself as a wild child, and in what she regards as her "true life" she feels almost like a bird, climbing trees, dreaming she could fly... until one day she accepts to work part-time for a very peculiar person, and finally lives her own fairy tale, discovering the secret hidden beyond the forest she loves so much. Unfortunately the style is dull, the rhythm really slow, the introspection of characters superficial. There are a lot of details which are not necessary to the story, and make it too heavy. The really interesting part starts about in the middle and is over in a dozen pages or maybe less. It's a pity, it could have been a fascinating book, but as it is, it's really not worth the effort to begin reading it.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is about Hero a girl who can talk but never says a word. She climbs the trees outside Miss Credences garden and becomes a different person in her fantasy world. Then she starts to work for Miss Credence and discovers a dark secret. This book is brilliant and can be quite scary. I urge you to read it!
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Keep This Book Under QT!
I didn't like this book. It was just too weird. I also disliked the characters.
Hero, 12 is selectively mute (selectively mute as distinguished from electively mute in that the... Read more
Published on 7 July 2005
I love this book!!
This is my favourite book, you can really relate to the feelings of the main character, Hero, and while it can be really serious and a bit scary, it can also be really hilarious. Read more
Published on 6 April 2003 by Becky
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