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Bezig met laden... Revenant (1992)door Louise Cooper
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Onderdeel van de reeks(en)Indigo (Cooper) (7)
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They are in a strange country where everything is extremely ordered and hierarchical. The rigid social order is defined by the wearing of coloured sashes. Committees are in charge of each town, and an area is set aside for foreigners such as Indigo. Everyone must have a utilitarian value: luckily, she has some herbal knowledge which leads to her being co-opted as a replacement physician in the community of Joyful Travail, the previous incumbent having died. A family in the foreign enclave become her hosts: parents and son and daughter. But even before her arrival a slightly creepy note has been struck because both Indigo and Grimya have been aware of whispering children's voices that have followed them on the road and now are heard at night, along with glimpses of ghostlike child figures. And it soon becomes apparent that no one, apart from the youngest child in the family, the son, can admit that they are aware of any of these presences.
In this story Indigo finally comes to terms with a longterm adversary. But first she must plunge into conflict with the townspeople, refusing to heed the wise council of Grimya despite the wolf's past demonstration that her instincts are usually better than Indigo's rationalisations and speculations. Quite a large part of the story and its central conflict all turns on Indigo's stubborness, which has been shown several times before. She can be quite an irritating character because of her persistent refusal to learn, though