Unrest - Brossura

Harrison, Michelle

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0857070916 ISBN 13: 9780857070913

Casa editrice: Simon & Schuster UK, 2012

Riassunto

'It takes great skill to create an atmosphere that creeps off the page into your veins. Harrison's subtlety and eye for detail lift this above any other spookfest.' The Independent 'Spooky, gripping and intriguing. I really enjoyed it.' Sophie McKenzie, author of Girl, Missing Seventeen-year-old Elliott hasn't slept properly for six months. Not since the accident that nearly killed him. Now he is afraid to go to sleep. Sometimes he wakes to find himself paralysed, unable to move a muscle, while shadowy figures move around him. Other times he is the one moving around, while his body lies asleep on the bed. According to his doctor, sleep paralysis and out of body experiences are harmless - but to Elliot they're terrifying. Convinced that his brush with death has opened up connections with the spirit world, Elliott secures a live-in job at one of England's most haunted locations, determined to find out the truth. There he finds Sebastian, the ghost of a long-dead servant boy hanged for stealing bread. He also meets the living, breathing Ophelia, a girl with secrets of her own. She and Elliott grow closer, but things take a terrifying turn when Elliott discovers Sebastian is occupying his body when he leaves it. And the more time Sebastian spends inhabiting a living body, the more resistant he becomes to giving it back. Worse, he seems to have an unhealthy interest in Ophelia. Unless Elliott can lay Sebastian's spirit to rest, he risks being possessed by him for ever, and losing the girl of his dreams... The brilliant, spine-tingling YA novel by award-winning author Michelle Harrison. 'Chilling' The Bookseller 'I devoured Unrest.Or rather, I felt it devoured me. Clever, unexpected and satisfying.' Kate Cann 'a beautifully written, gripping, thoroughly spooky young adult novel... Unsettling, eerie, with intriguing characters and a compelling, satisfying plot full of twists and turns... I loved it.' Sarah Singleton

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Recensione:

"Chilling." The Bookseller
"I devoured Unrest. Or rather, I felt it devoured me. Clever, unexpected and satisfying." Kate Cann
"It takes great skill to create an atmosphere that creeps off the page into your veins. Harrison's subtlety and eye for detail lift this above any other spookfest." The Independent
"a beautifully written, gripping, thoroughly spooky young adult novel... Unsettling, eerie, with intriguing characters and a compelling, satisfying plot full of twists and turns... I loved it." Sarah Singleton
Praise for THE THIRTEEN TREASURES:
* "excellent additions to the evolution of fairy-tales" The Times
* "The Thirteen Treasures boils with the kind of fairy that is far worse than Puck..what could be more cheering to curl up with" Amanda Craig
"The story itself is both dark and gripping" thebookbag.co.uk
"This is a really exciting read, full of thrills, mysteries and menace" Primary Times
"faerie fiction with a sharp edge - utterly addictive" Waterstone's Books Quarterly
"A charming and inventive tale" The Times

L'autore:

Michelle Harrison is 29 years old and an editorial assistant in children's publishing. She is a former bookseller at Ottakars/Waterstones in Stafford. Originally from Grays in Essex, she is a keen illustrator as well as writer and now lives in Oxfordshire with her partner. Her debut novel THE THIRTEEN TREASURES won the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize in 2009, it's sequel THIRTEEN CURSES publishes in 2010.

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• Editore: Simon & Schuster UK
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0857070916
• ISBN 13: 9780857070913
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 384