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Shadows of Winter Robins de Louise Wolhuter
de Louise Wolhuter - Género: English
Sinopsis
Sometimes you must shine a light on the dark places to see what was always there?.
Winter Robins is a happy enough child, growing up in the north of England, with parents who love her and the constant companion of a twin brother, but a cold wind blows through when her mother dies. Her father turns to the bottle, her grandmother struggles to cope, and she and her brother are sent to live in Western Australia with family their mother had never mentioned.
Although Winter quickly settles in Australia and comes to love her life and the people in it, she notices strange happenings in the shadows of her new home. When a news story prompts her to look back as her past, she begins to wonder whether things were as idyllic as she had thought at the time.
As she uncovers secret after secret, she realises a much darker narrative may have been and perhaps still is playing out ...M.F
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This was a full on experience of a book. The writing is deliciously descriptive and wonderfully wordy. I loved the style of this one so much. The joy with the crackle of something sinister is right there from the start, the story ebbs and flows the waves at the beach.
A tricky review to write, Ive gone back to the blurb several times as Im so keen not to spoiler the story, Winter Robins had a good start to life. Lucky to have a twin brother and best friend rolled into one. Loving parents and a granny. Winter and fours mum dies, and when her dad hits the bottle and her granny cant cope, her uncle dog comes from Australia to fetch them home to her mothers side of the family. Its different there, its warm at Christmas and Four really wants to go home, but Win is happy, theyve got a good life there and family and shes clean and fed and her grandmother makes sure she doesnt have lice or bits between her toes.
Along with adult winter, a teacher, noticing now, the kids with spitballs in their curls and grey socks and fingernails. When a news article hits (just as Win is suspended, with a mandatory 10 sessions with a therapist, for caring too much about a left behind child) we journey back through Wins life, an idyllic life, it was, wasnt it? With Four, and gran and Harry and Alison. Uncle dog, Hettie and Gabe. She was happy, she remembers it, but what lives in the shadows comes into the light one way or another, and the story rolls with shock after stunning shock of truth in the most mesmerising way.
You cannot do all the good that the world needs, but the world needs all the good you can do - Alison.
I think this might very well be my book of the year! A stunner from a new to me author.
The narration by Maddy Withington was perfectly paired with the writing.
All the stars
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