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Read this this afternoon with a sleeping baby in my knee, thinking that as it’s a children’s book it would be s quick and easy read. Quick, maybe, easy in that the story carries you along, but challenging would be a better description. Challenging of orthodoxies, of ideas accepted without thought, of even the realities around us. It won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Award, and I can see why.
The main character is a 12 year old boy training to be a priest in a rigid religious society, and in a moment’s quick decision he starts on a course of action that will have consequences far beyond what anyone can foresee. Thought-provoking, elegant, thoughtful – all appropriate words to describe a book I chose on a whim because I know the author, Peter Dickinson, is married to one in my all time favourite authors, Robin McKinley. I’m guessing she has pretty good taste in men 😉
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