The Twistrose Key
by:
Tone Almhjell (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780349001661 (0349001669)
Publish date: October 29th 2013
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
Recently, I read the Twistrose Key, by Tone Almhjell. That's a Norwegian children's books writer. According to a review by a Norwegian girl, the English original wasn't very good. I can't comment on that. I read the Swedish translation. It was good enough that I was taken in. I thought it was a book...
Eleven-year-old Lindelin "Lin" Rosenquist is mourning the death of her pet vole, Rufus, and miserable in her new home away from her best friend and childhood haunts. One dark evening, she receives a mysterious package labelled "Twistrose" with a rose-shaped key inside. She discovers that the key unl...
Did not finish. Stopped at page 138.
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