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Robert and Alice are 15-year-old twins, who live in a big house in the country. The school year is drawing to a close, and a hot summer begins. For Robert, everything in his life feels wrong: his family, his friends, particularly his embarrassing sister Alice. Then Nick appears, dazzling, devil-may-care, extraordinary, offering an unexpected friendship. Robert is thrilled by the attention, and his sense of dislocation with the rest of his life grows. In the suffocating heat, heavy with boredom and frustration, he hangs about waiting for Nick who turns up only occasionally, but always promising great things. He begins to encourage Robert to give in to the spiteful part of his nature: letting bulls into a field to frighten his father's friend, setting hay bales on fire, and even killing a baby bird.
As the summer wears on, an old homeless man is occasionally seen roaming around the farm, giving all who come across him an inexplicable feeling of revulsion and dread and a sense of mounting foreboding. The conflicting fascination and fear of Nick draw events towards their climax. It is only Alice who clearly recognises Nick for what he is, and can hope to save her brother ...
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'Robert stared, the stranger seemed to sense his eyes on him, and turned, can came towards him. And the light and the shade dappled his skin in such a way that he seemed to come and go, almost to disappear at times, as he sploshed towards Robert through the sparkling water, caught to the sun's rays, on that boiling afternoon.'
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A subtle and sinister fantasy ... pwerfully conveyed. The characters seem real ... the end is very satisfying. (Armadillo)
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Josephine Poole ... is expert at building up tension from small details and creating menace ... This sensitivity to the characters' own uncertainties enhances the mysteries ... but it is also what gives the books an atmosphere which is remembered long after the plot is forgotten. (Twentieth Century Children's Writers)
sinister power is compellingly conveyed. (The Guardian)
There is a real study of the nature of good and evil underlying the story ... a good book as well as a most unusual one. (TLS)
Praise for 'Moon Eyes'
Josephine Poole ... is expert at building up tension from small details and creating menace ... This sensitivity to the characters' own uncertainties enhances the mysteries ... but it is also what gives the books an atmosphere which is remembered long after the plot is forgotten. (Twentieth Century Children's Writers)
sinister power is compellingly conveyed. (The Guardian)
There is a real study of the nature of good and evil underlying the story ... a good book as well as a most unusual one. (TLS)
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- PublisherHodder Children's Books
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0340843756
- ISBN 13 9780340843758
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages208
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