Together with Meindert Swarteziel en het bloed van de duivel is De Griezelgolf my favorite book from my youth. My father used to be an editor at the publisher Ploegsma.Peter lives with his mother on a houseboat in an Amsterdam Canal. His mother is an inventor, who gets an assignment from the directo...
While still a good book, this book has been rewritten. The original book from 1973, while more 'uneven' because of the changing POVs, is better. See my other review, of the original 1973 book, Meindert Swarteziel en het bloed van de duivel.
My father used to work at the publisher Ploegsma, so I got a lot of YA books in my youth. This book, together with another title by Van Kerkwijk 'Griezelgolf' remain my favorite books.The story is horrifying - Waldemar and his two children, Meindert and Siebold, flee from their city in Germany after...