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Bezig met laden... Amy & Lan (editie 2022)door Sadie Jones (Auteur)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. this book was definitely not for me, but I plowed through it. I did not care for the writng, nor the details about so many bodily functions presented by the author. It's about 2 children who live in an experimental community that attempts to be self sufficient. There were so many people involved and the animals also had human names, so it was difficult, but unimportant for me, to know who everyone was. ( ) Amy and Lan are best friends who live on a small holding in the country. Their families clubbed together to leave the rat race and try self-sufficiency, rebuilding cottages and barns and raising goats and chickens. It is an idyllic life for the two, living as they please, not over-supervised and loving life. However as Amy and Lan grow older they realise that there are prices to pay. Jones writes really well and this is no exception. Underneath the bucolic idyll there are hints of what is to come. Written from the perspective of the children the inevitable outcome is flagged up and its impact is handled sensitively and realistically. A mature and strong novel. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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HTML: The author of the highly acclaimed, bestselling novel The Uninvited Guests returns with a captivating coming of age story told by Amy and Lan, two children whose journey from innocence to moving experience is shaped by their families' attempt at the pastoral dream on a farm, deep in the English countryside. "The very first thing I remember is standing on the water-butt in the garden, with my Mum holding me to stop me falling, singing 'I'm On Top of the World' , and the smell of the new wood in the hot sun. And something do with Mum's silver necklace. Amy doesn't remember any of that. Her very first memory is our wolfhound Ivan knocking her over in a puddle. Or it might be eating a boiled egg, and looking at the daisies on her kitchen tablecloth." Amy Connell and Lan Honey are having the best childhood ever. They live on a 78-acre farm in the South West of England, with sisters and brothers, other kids, chickens, goats, three dogs, and even a calf, called Gabriella Christmas. "Honeys in the Farmhouse, Connells in the Cowhouse, Hodges in the Carthouse . . ." The three sets of parents are best friends who came to Frith from the city, and are learning, year after year, how to farm the land. Free and unsupervised, Amy and Lan play with axes and climb on haystacks, but there is grownup danger at Frith they don't see. It's Gail, Lan's mother, and Adam, Amy's father who should be more careful. They should learn what kids know: never to play with fire. .Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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