The Ghost's Child
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781406313192 (140631319X)
Publish date: May 2008
Publisher: Walker Books Ltd
Pages no: 192
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Young Adult,
Teen,
Paranormal,
Cultural,
Romance,
Speculative Fiction,
Contemporary,
Magical Realism,
Australia,
Ghosts
I'm reading this for Contemporary Children's Lit and according to my Prof, this is "simply divine and unlike anything you have ever read." It sounds exquisitely painful.For a novel its length, A Ghost’s Child is surprisingly heavy where the themes are concerned. The book deals with self-discovery in...
Sonya Hartnett’s The Ghost’s Child is a story of love and loss. Told in beautiful prose, the novel starts with an aging Matilda (Maddy) as she recounts her life story to a young boy that suddenly appeared on her doorstep. Maddy starts with her story about growing up in a well-to-do family with an “i...