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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Visitorsdi Rebecca Mascull
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Take Hellen Keller, put her in Victorian England, give her back her sight (after she meets the miracle worker and learns to sign), and then add a dash of war (2nd Boer War), and a bit of the supernatural. A fun read, some very fine prose. ( ) I LIKED the way Mascull takes a pot boiler, 19th century locale, and tweaks it with a child who is blind, deaf and mute, and, just as a sweetener, sees ghosts. Frankly I was dubious, but about two-thirds of the way through we have a murder mystery and all of the heroine's amazing giftedness bears fruit. This is Mascull's debut and the child's voice isn't too convincing, and the plot isn't far from derivative. However, she more than compensates with a well-researched context in late Victorian England and even the ghosts seem scientifically explicable until it doesn't matter too much any more, because I was just enjoying the story. The novel is paced well, never slows much, and everything is tied up really neatly by the end. So, what I thought was going to be Mills & Boon with a twist, turned out to be less easy to categorise. I look forward to Mascull's follow-up. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Imagine if you couldn't see couldn't hear couldn't speak... Then one day somebody took your hand and opened up the world to you. Adeliza Golding is a deaf-blind girl, born in late Victorian England on her father's hop farm. Unable to interact with her loving family, she exists in a world of darkness and confusion; her only communication is with the ghosts she speaks to in her head, who she has christened the Visitors. One day she runs out into the fields and a young hop-picker, Lottie, grabs her hand and starts drawing shapes in it. Finally Liza can communicate. Her friendship with her teacher and with Lottie's beloved brother Caleb leads her from the hop gardens and oyster beds of Kent to the dusty veldt of South Africa and the Boer War, and ultimately to the truth about the Visitors. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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