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Jonathan, Holly e Davy vivono soli da quando i loro genitori sono morti. Sono tre ragazzi ottimisti e determinati e cercano sempre di trovare gli aspetti positivi di ogni situazione. Purtroppo la loro situazione finanziaria precipita e si ritrovano in gravi difficolt© , senza potersi permettere n©♭ delle scarpe nuove n©♭, soprattutto, un pasto che non sia un piatto di fagioli. Tutto cambia quando vanno a trovare la ricca ed eccentrica zia Irene, vittima di un infarto. Incapace di parlare o scrivere, la zia consegna a Holly alcune fotografie che potrebbero portarle a un'eredit© che risolverebbe tutti i loro problemi. Ma non sono gli unici a volere il tesoro... Et© di lettura: da 11 anni. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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This book feels like a cross between Jaqueline Wilson and Enid Blyton. There is a big dollop of ‘realistic kids misery lit’ like not being able to afford rent and vet’s bills, entwined with ‘we have a photograph of a place where Treasure is buried, can we find it?’
I bought it because I was going to Orkney on holiday. There’s only a short chunk at the end where they are on Orkney, but I thought it did capture the island well, although more from the perspective of ‘what is it like to be a tourist’ which I did kind of know already. It was fun to recognise all the places though!
I guess it is hard to write a book where children have adventures and have the main adults in the children’s lives be likeable and competent, but they really did draw the short straw with their family! A literally paranoid Aunt who causes most of the plot by hiding all the money in the first place (and who has done a staunch ‘no, I don’t help people with money, people must help themselves’ when her nephews and niece are orphaned, despite being A Fabulously Wealthy Inventor), her husband who
The book is trying quite hard to be modern and realistic, and broadly manages it well. There were a few things that didn’t feel like they would quite work (the problem of getting back from Mainland Orkney to Aberdeen is pretty much elided with ‘a farmer has a boat on Papa Westray’ and they manage to book a car on the ferry to Orkney with less than a day’s notice in Summer with limited budget!) but nothing too outrageous.
It is doing the ‘use books for children to recommend other famous books to children’ thing, there is a liberal scattering of references to books I like, including Dorothy L Sayers, the Family at One End Street, and the title is a Donne reference. It is from the time when we all thought Potter was great too.
An enjoyable read with a very likeable plucky first person narrator. ( )