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Marcus Sedgwick
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Audio CD
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Publisher | Orion | ||
ISBN | 978-140912434 | ||
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Vicky
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It's summer. Rebecca is an unwilling visitor to Winterfold - taken from the buzz of London and her friends and what she thinks is the start of a promising romance. Ferelith already lives in Winterfold - it's a place that doesn't like to let you go, and she knows it inside out - the beach, the crumbling cliff paths, the village streets, the woods, the deserted churches and ruined graveyards, year by year being swallowed by the sea. Against her better judgement, Rebecca and Ferelith become friends, and during that long, hot, claustrophobic summer they discover more about each other and about Winterfold than either of them really want to, uncovering frightening secrets that would be best left long forgotten. Interwoven with Rebecca and Ferelith's stories is that of the seventeenth century Rector and Dr Barrieux, master of Winterfold Hall, whose bizarre and bloody experiments into the after-life might make angels weep, and the devil crow.
Review
Wow what can I say! This is absolutely mesmerising. Marcus Sedgwick has written a brilliant gothic thriller for the 12+ age group that is quite thought provoking to say the least. It is also - being a gothic thriller quite spooky!
His subject matter this time is - is there life after death and how do we find out! People in the 18th Century have some very innovative ideas in how to get answers to their questions! And Ferelith soon draws Rebecca into her own quest and schemes to find out.
Teresa Gallager is excellent in bringing to life Marcus Sedgwick's characters and I pretty much had to listen to this audio book in one sitting! Luckily I had a quilt to make - it grew pretty quickly!!
All I can say is buy this audio book now it is more than excellent. So see a video of Marcus - click here

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