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I was wondering if this would be a sort of Flavia de Luce/Harriet the Spy type of mystery, with an amusing and precocious young girl detective character. Instead, it became a study of a neighborhood's ugly underside, and I was not amused. Maybe I should have been, but written humor is rough, and this too often came across to me as mean.
Young Grace and her friend Tilly are curious about the disappearance of their neighbor lady. They also, after a Sunday sermon, decide that they want to "find God" ...more
Young Grace and her friend Tilly are curious about the disappearance of their neighbor lady. They also, after a Sunday sermon, decide that they want to "find God" ...more
I chose this for the title and am glad I did, even if I wasn’t thinking Biblical at the time, more farming! It takes place within the confines of a small street in an unnamed town in Norfolk in the long hot heat-wave of the summer of 1976, a time I remember well as I was teaching then on the south coast of England. Joanna Cannon does an excellent job of evoking those never-ending days and nights of heat and stillness and tempers getting the better of you, as well as just evoking the England of m
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Jan 22, 2018
Marie (UK)
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This was a real blast from the childhood of my past, Grace and Tilly were so well drawn and the neighbourhood true to life. Overall a good read
Nov 25, 2016
Serendipity Reviews
marked it as books-everyone-s-talking-about
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May 17, 2021
Sarah McCauley
marked it as to-read
