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Ghost Girl (Hardcover)

by Helena McEwen (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 246 pages
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (7 Jun 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0747562512
  • ISBN-13: 978-0747562511
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13.8 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,093,315 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Praise for The Big House: 'This is true talent.' Maggie O' Farrell 'Strange, sad and beautifully written.' Shena Mackay 'A true work of art.' Allan Massie

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Thirteen-year-old Cath is a new girl at a Catholic convent. She is afraid of the nuns, unused to the restriction and terrified of God. She finds refuge in nature, and her friend Olive's vision of the starry limitless universe. Cath's sister Very is at art school in seventies Punk London. She lives a wild chaotic life with bedraggled artists, outrageous homosexuals, and shadowy nightclub owners. Cath shares this life when she visits, and the two sisters whirl through the city, along Chelsea Embankment, through the alleys of late-night Soho. But London like the convent holds its dangers - and Cath must find her own way through. Ghost Girl is a wonderful portrait of two sisters (each in their own way on the brink of growing up), of the sharp pain of adolescence and its particular loneliness, and of the exhilaration and dilemmas of youth. Suffused with colour and sensuality, written with a spare, perfectly controlled lyricism, this is an evocative, moving and bittersweet novel from the acclaimed author of The Big House.

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4.0 out of 5 stars An impressionist novel, 11 Nov 2005
By Star_Sea "Xing" (Salisbury, England) - See all my reviews
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This is a beautiful novel, delicate and intense. I call it 'impressionist' because while the descriptions are spare, the novel is full of 'the essence' of things - homesickness, adolescence, how the streetlights look in winter, artistic absorption...

Helena McEwen's first novel, "The Big House", was a wonderful meditation on loss and family, but lacked a proper storyline. There is a better framework for McEwen's lyrical introspection this time, although it's still a framework rather than an actual plot. Cath has been sent to convent school in the UK because she is too old to travel with her parents. Homesick and bewildered by this country which she is supposed to call 'home', Cath's disorientation is further intensified by the strict rules of the convent and by her status as 'the new girl'. Her only anchor in this strange new world is her sister Very (short for Verity). Very lives in London in a barely furnished flat, and nominally attends art school. Since this is the 1970s, punk is raging on the streets of London, and Cath soaks up the atmosphere every time she escapes to see Very. Eventually, Cath begins to find her feet and discover more about herself.

The biggest asset about this novel is the language. It is sparse, lyrical, absorbing: Cath's identification with nature gives the author leeway to write wonderful passages that are almost holy in their reverence. McEwen also captures the convent school atmosphere and the various facets of each character, not just Very and Cath. My favourites are Olive and Natalie. As before, she writes movingly on the love and trust between sisters without falling into cliche.

McEwen deserves a wider readership. Although this is marketed as an adult novel, I would recommend it to any teenage girl, as the chapters are short and they will recognise a lot of the characters in the story.

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