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by Tim Wynne-Jones (Author)
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  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd; New Ed edition (24 Jan 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0746064810
  • ISBN-13: 978-0746064818
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 244,861 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Jim is just regaining some semblance of a normal life following his father's sudden disappearance, when he is attacked by a crazy girl. Ruth Rose has a wild story to tell about her stepfather, the saintly Father Fisher, and needs someone to believe her - and help her prove it. Gradually Jim is convinced by Ruth Rose and they find themselves tracking a murderer and caught up in a dangerous web of secrets from a dark and unsettling past.
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4.0 out of 5 stars "Classy teenage thriller" indeed!, 18 Oct 2007
This review is from: The Boy in the Burning House (Hardcover)
I have used a quotation from a review on the cover of this book, since I could think of no more appropriate comment! This book, and thus this author, were new and very pleasurable discoveries for me. He is a multi-award-winning Canadian writer, and this particular title was shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, so it has a good UK pedigree too!
Jim Hawkins is trying to rebuild his life with his mother, after the disappearance of his father. Ruth Rose is the wild and seemingly mentally peculiar stepdaughter of a local preacher.Ruth thinks she knows the the truth behind Hub Hawkins' disappearance, and tries to convince Jim - much against his will - to believe her. Gradually, it emerges that this and another local mystery - the body of a local boy found in the burnt-out wreckage of a derelict farmhouse - are linked, and Father Fisher is not what he seems.
The characterisation in this taut tale is terrific, the author gets inside the teenage mind, and the story really sucks the reader in. I found it impossible to put down, and read it at one gulp. It is a story that gets darker as it moves on, and the climax, when Jim and Ruth Rose confront a truly dangerous and evil man, is satisfactorily frightening! The author writes in a style that I particularly admire - never wasting a word, or using half a page when one sentence will do.
This book will appeal to competent teenage readers, but I have never subscribed to the theory that a book is necessarily only good for readers of the same age as the main characters. As an adult reader I thoroughly enjoyed it!
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