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Ann Kelley
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  • Paperback: 208 pages
  • Publisher: Luath Press Ltd; 2nd Revised edition edition (7 July 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1905222084
  • ISBN-13: 978-1905222087
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13.2 x 1.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 532,474 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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MICHAEL BAYLEY

Gussie fairly fizzles with vitality, radiating fun and enjoyment into everything that comes her way. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

MICHAEL FOREMAN

Acutely observed, tender, funny and very moving. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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This is the story of a 12 year old girl with a congenital heart defect which could quite possibly kill her very soon. To ease the strain on her heart, her mother moves the two of them to a remote cottage on the Cornish coast. As plot goes not much happens in this book - it is essentially a perfect creation of a richly complex individual, and a study of life, death, loneliness and hope. As the story is primarily centred round a single character's day-to-day existence, it incorporates a captivating, extremely personal inner monologue, drawing readers into her interest in the natural world and keen observation of unusual language.

In tone and style this is something of a cross between The Curious Incident of The Dog In The Nighttime, and The Lovely Bones, but claims its own stake as a gorgeous, luxuriant work of fiction; and once you are finished you will want to read it right over again.

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This would have been more successful if it had some sort of plot. That would have been a distraction from the meandering narrative of, not an eleven / twelve year old girl, but that of a (however old the author is) adult woman pretending to be a young girl. The author's also a poet, and there is some strong imagery in here which is clearly informed by that. One swallow, though, does not make a summer. I was not convinced by some of the dialogue, and the Mum was a clichéd, embittered proto-divorcée which has been done to death in far too many other books. I'm not usually one to baulk at bad language, but there was no place for it here.
A good book should have a beginning, a middle, and an end. This was the middle.
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