The Weight of Water
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781408824641 (1408824647)
ASIN: 11409124
Publish date: January 5th 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Childrens,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Realistic Fiction,
Romance,
Middle Grade,
Family,
Contemporary,
Poetry,
Fiction
First dipped into the poems in the charity shop without realising it was a novel. Then read it cover to cover trying to go slowly. The narrative thread drives you on through the book so that it is really hard to stop reading one poem after another and the book is finished far too quickly. I loved th...
I need to finally brush off my prejudice against books that are written in verse. Every single time I raise a sceptical eyebrow in their direction - completely unable to believe that this is anything more than just lazy storytelling - and every single time I find myself impressed. [b:The Weight of W...
I'm not usually a fan of novels written in poetic form, but this was an exception. Much like the water which is a recurring motive, this is far deeper than it first appears, with a beautifully written protagonist. The sparse words were infinitely more evocative than dense prose would have been. I fo...
This review originally appeared at http://bellesbookshelf.blogspot.com/If I see a book is written in verse, I usually pass it over. I've only read one verse novel in the past - The Monkey's Mask by Dorothy Porter, when I was at uni - and I really didn't enjoy it. I thought it was because it was writ...
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