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Sto caricando le informazioni... Those in Peril (Suzie Fewings) (edizione 2010)di Fay Sampson
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A Suzie Fewings genealogical mystery - Nick Fewings, the husband of keen family history researcher Suzie, inherits a portrait of his great-grandfather, a famous lifeboatman in St Furseys. Nick and Suzie are keen to find out more, so they decide to take their two teenage children, Tom and Millie, on holiday there. The family stay with Nick's brother Leon and his daughter Anna, and the teen girls' imaginations are soon fired by tales of smugglers on the coast. They are delighted when Nick discovers that his ancestors once owned the Noah's Ark Inn, an old smuggling haunt, but when he and the girls visit they are chased off by its seemingly unbalanced owner. Then one afternoon the girls go missing. Tom thinks they've gone to search for smugglers, but the others aren't so sure. Could the girls have returned to the inn and run into trouble? Or does an offshore archaeological-survey vessel hold the answers? Either way, night is falling and the clock is ticking . . . Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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 Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni...GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)823.914Literature English English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999VotoMedia: (4)
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Though I haven't yet read the first two books, I'm guessing that in [b:Those in Peril|10139008|Those in Peril|Wilbur Smith|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51tdffxE2iL._SL75_.jpg|14637971], the focus has shifted a bit. The protagonist in this book is really Suzie's husband, Nick, and to some extent the rest of their family -- teens Tom and Millie, Nick's brother Theo, and Theo's daughter Anna. Nick and Theo's aunt has died at a ripe old age and after the funeral. they learn that she has bequeathed Nick a large photograph of his great-great-grandfather, a heroic lifeboatman from East Anglia. This sparks Nick's interest in his family history and the family decide to use part of the aunt's financial legacy on a trip to the East Coast town the family left before Nick and Theo's births. Theo, newly divorced, has coincidentally moved to the town, St. Fursey's, to paint, and daughter Anna is spending the week with him. As Suzie introduces her family to the pleasures of genealogical research, they learn that it's possible some of Nick's ancestors were involved in smuggling. Millie and Anna, both 14, are fascinated by this bit of information and also by tales of modern-day smugglers. It's all good fun until the girls don't return on time from an expedition in search of smuggling evidence. There's quite a bit of nail-biting excitement before the chilling climax.
I am eager to read more about the Fewings family and especially Suzie, who is not the main character here. Sampson also charmed me with her painterly descriptions of the East Anglian scenery and Nick's thoughtful ruminations on family, history and the intersection of the two. I'd definitely recommend this one. (