The Reluctant Hallelujah
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780143566847 (0143566849)
Publish date: February 22nd 2012
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 264
Edition language: English
It's three days till Dodie finishes school forever, and her life is in chaos. Not because of school, but because her parents have gone missing and she's discovered that they've been hiding something in their basement. Something that millions of people would love to get their hands on - including som...
This review also appears at The Midnight Garden2.5 starsOn the surface of things, The Reluctant Hallelujah contains all the necessary ingredients that go into cooking up a very cool book. A mystery, a road trip, Williams’ trademark wit, teenage highjinks and lots of love for my home city, Melbourne....
"My latest book is ‘The Reluctant Hallelujah’, about a group of teenagers who have to drive – unlicensed – in a 1964 Ford Falcon up to Sydney, just before exams start, and deliver a very important ‘package’ that their parents (and grandparents before them) have been looking after for the past 28 yea...
If the plot’s journey doesn’t do it for you, then the characters most definitely will.****If you have read Beatle Meets Destiny you would know that Gab Williams knows how to find that perfect voice for her characters. In The Reluctant Hallelujah Dodie is given this distinct voice that changes over t...