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Found in a forest hall charity shop. Already read some time ago. Ready for travel :-)

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Enjoy!!

Added to Abi-Gibby's bookbox :-)

Taken out of Abi-Gibby's Book Box.
As my TBR pile is massive it may take a while to get to this.

This was not what I expected it to be. I was very quicly drawn into the story and was hooked from first page to last.

This is now on its way to Switzerland as part of the Women in Fiction Sweeps, hope you enjoy it as much as I did :-)

Selected from the Women in Fiction VBB - a book printed for World Book Night 2012- fun!

I don't really know how to categorize this - it's not sci-fi, but a slightly dystopian future. At the same time I had the distinct impression I was reading a book set at the time of WWII, impression dispelled almost immediately by comments about cell phone reception and email, but the writing had the almost sepia-like feel to it that stories about the somewhat recent past often do.
Likewise, although there's nothing clearly magical about it, there was a certain fairy-like and magic aspect to the cousins - what with their apparent telepathy and keen listening skills (also for the unspoken) - for humans and animals, and other individual quirks and skills.
It's a short, quick story with a prickly heroine. Her eating disorder is not really ignored but accepted, and she discovers a family which she can accept and embrace, as opposed to the one she has left behind (cast off or been cast out of?) in New York.
The way war arrives and how the children cope is moving and feels weirdly realistic.
An eery, good read.