Florence fühlt sich allein und wünscht sich Freunde! Da taucht Georg auf. Sie haben viel Spaß, doch die Unternehmungen werden immer gefährlicher. Will Georg sie in die Welt der Schatten locken?
Ramsgate, Kent 1930. Clarendon House Grammar Sch for Girls, Ramsgate, and St Hilda’s Coll Oxford. She worked in publishing and became chief sub-editor for Cambridge Univ Press until her appointment as Librarian and Tutor at Newnham Coll Cambridge. She has edited school text-books on Milton, written books for children (The Multiplying Glass and The Oak King and the Ash Queen), and served as an elder of Emmanuel URC in Cambridge. She was a member of the texts (sub-) committees for the mainly Methodist book Hymns and Psalms (1983) and for the URC’s Rejoice and Sing (1991). Her best-known hymn appears in several current books including the 2005 edition of A Panorama of Christian Hymnody.
Dieses Buch habe ich mit 11, 12 gelesen und fand es damals wirklich spannend und gut - und etwas gruselig. Knapp 20 Jahre später hat es mir immer noch gefallen. Ich wusste tatsächlich nur noch recht wenig vom Plot, nur die wichtigsten Eckpunkte waren mir im Gedächtnis geblieben. Jedenfalls hatte ich Spaß und fühlte mich für einen wunderbaren Moment zurück in meine Kindheit versetzt :D
There were parts that went a bit slow, and the beginning was a bit tough to get into, but it definitely got interesting, and even a little creepy near the halfway point. The end is not recomended as a night time read.
Florence si sente sola e abbandonata dal padre che, vedovo, viaggia per affari. Mentre si trova a casa in compagnia delle zie, scova in un cassetto una foto raffigurante un bambino, la cui esistenza è avvolta dal mistero. Incuriosita, Florence deciderà di evocare il suo spirito. Da quel giorno la vita di Florence non sarà più la stessa. Romanzo breve di "paura". Senza infamia e senza lode!