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`This book is really beautifully written' --The Overflow Library
`Gillian Phillips just gets better and better. I suspect there is nothing she can't write about. And I suspect there is nothing I won't read if its by Gillian' --Bookwitch
`Gillian Phillips is a wonderful writer. A lot of the passages were written beautifully and I could get lost inside Ruby's world' --Just Your Typical Book Blog
`The Opposite of Amber is a simply stunning book' --Hopelessly Devoted Bibliophile
`It's beautifully written, tense and absorbing, and we can't recommend it highly enough' --The Bookbag
'Gillian Phillips just gets better and better. I suspect there is nothing she can't write about. And I suspect there is nothing I won't read if its by Gillian' --Bookwitch
'Gillian Phillips is a wonderful writer. A lot of the passages were written beautifully and I could get lost inside Ruby's world' --Just Your Typical Book Blog
'The Opposite of Amber is a simply stunning book' --Hopelessly Devoted Bibliophile
'It's beautifully written, tense and absorbing, and we can't recommend it highly enough'
--The Bookbag
`A thriller with pace and strong characterisation'
--The School Librarian
`Gillian Phillips just gets better and better. I suspect there is nothing she can't write about. And I suspect there is nothing I won't read if its by Gillian' --Bookwitch
`Gillian Phillips is a wonderful writer. A lot of the passages were written beautifully and I could get lost inside Ruby's world' --Just Your Typical Book Blog
`The Opposite of Amber is a simply stunning book' --Hopelessly Devoted Bibliophile
`It's beautifully written, tense and absorbing, and we can't recommend it highly enough' --The Bookbag
'Gillian Phillips just gets better and better. I suspect there is nothing she can't write about. And I suspect there is nothing I won't read if its by Gillian' --Bookwitch
'Gillian Phillips is a wonderful writer. A lot of the passages were written beautifully and I could get lost inside Ruby's world' --Just Your Typical Book Blog
'The Opposite of Amber is a simply stunning book' --Hopelessly Devoted Bibliophile
'It's beautifully written, tense and absorbing, and we can't recommend it highly enough'
--The Bookbag
`A thriller with pace and strong characterisation'
--The School Librarian
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'They found the fifth girl right after the snow melted ...the place where he left her was winter water, crazed with ice-feathers and dusted with snow. The traces from her body were gone, the ones that said his name, but she had an extra skin of ice that protected her and she looked perfect, like Snow White.' Ruby and her older sister, Jinn, are on their own, just about making ends meet. Jinn is beautiful, with glittering blonde hair, and makes it her business to look after Ruby. They are horrified by, but try to ignore, the local newspaper stories of prostitutes who are murdered, their bodies eventually discovered underwater. Then the no-good Nathan Baird turns up on the scene - again - and Jinn starts to change and no longer has time to look after Ruby. And it seems to Ruby that Jinn herself needs looking after. Her beautiful glittering hair starts to lose its shine. And then Jinn disappears. A deeply moving, chilling, and incredibly powerful thriller that celebrates the love two sisters have for each other and mourns the events beyond their control that will conspire to drive them apart.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Gillian Philip has captured what it is to be a teenager; the good and the bad, the doubts, the fears, the insecurities and being in love, absolutely brilliantly in this story. Anyone who is, or ever has been a teenager will enjoy this great book.
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Format:Paperback
The Opposite Of Amber is a surprising book. Firstly, I presumed from the publishers blurb on the back it was going to be a murder mystery, tense and full of suspense. It isn't like that at all really, although there is an element of mystery about it. It's really about the relationship between two sisters, Ruby and Jinn and their lives in a run down Scottish seaside town and the traumas which haunt both them and their fellow residents. The second surprising thing was how hooked I actually became to this book. It started off quite slow and I wasn't sure I was going to enjoy it, yet before I knew it the story of Ruby and Jinn had crept right under my skin and didn't let go.
Told in the first person from Ruby, Gillian Philips places the reader directly in this character's head. Ruby's had a lot to deal with over the years and as a result doesn't talk much, so her thoughts are particularly important to the story. They are written so well it's impossible not to become fully involved and care for her and I found her love for Jinn, the sister who brought her up, very touching.
The setting also came across beautifully through both the characters and descriptions. I know towns and people like the ones in The Opposite Of Amber and Philip's portrays them with shocking truth.
The Opposite Of Amber is brutally honest both in language and themes and isn't the easiest book to read but it is a worthwhile one. It's beautifully written using enough dialect and slang to make the characters and setting believable without alienating those who may be unfamiliar with it. This is a book which will open your eyes, make you think and whose main characters Ruby and Jinn will haunt you long after the last page.
Told in the first person from Ruby, Gillian Philips places the reader directly in this character's head. Ruby's had a lot to deal with over the years and as a result doesn't talk much, so her thoughts are particularly important to the story. They are written so well it's impossible not to become fully involved and care for her and I found her love for Jinn, the sister who brought her up, very touching.
The setting also came across beautifully through both the characters and descriptions. I know towns and people like the ones in The Opposite Of Amber and Philip's portrays them with shocking truth.
The Opposite Of Amber is brutally honest both in language and themes and isn't the easiest book to read but it is a worthwhile one. It's beautifully written using enough dialect and slang to make the characters and setting believable without alienating those who may be unfamiliar with it. This is a book which will open your eyes, make you think and whose main characters Ruby and Jinn will haunt you long after the last page.
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Exactly what we have come to expect from Gillian Philip - a totally absorbing, totally believable read. This is young adult fiction, but this old(ish) adult can still remember what it felt like to be a teen. I literally could not put this down, and then was sorry that I had come to the end of it. But most of all, it struck me that within these pages there is some very fine writing indeed. I don't just mean that it's a good story, which it certainly is, or that the characters are believable, which they surely are, or that the setting is authentic, which it is. I mean that Philip has a facility with words and ideas that is the mark of a fine writer. Sometimes it will be as simple as a brilliant turn of phrase, or an image that lingers in the mind. Sometimes it will be a sense of real craftsmanship, of overall structure, of a mind totally in control of the material. But she's always mindful of the need to communicate with the reader too. I loved this. Can't recommend it too highly.
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The Opposite of Amber isn't the book you think it is going to be. The synopsis on it is a little misleading in its tone and sets you up for a very different kind of read. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Kirsty at the Overflowing Library
Another stunning book from a very talented author
The Opposite of Amber follows two sisters, Ruby and Jinn, and what happens when outside influences interfere with their close and loving relationship. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Rebecca Brown
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