Paradise End
Ages 9 to 11
04 September 2008Imprint: Macmillan Children's Books
Synopsis
Paradise End by Elizabeth Laird, author of The Fastest Boy in the World, is the story of an unlikely friendship between two girls who both long for a different life.
Carly often finds herself gazing through the gates of Paradise End. She fantasizes about discovering that she was swapped at birth, and is in fact the rightful owner of the...
Details
04 September 2008240 pages
9780330477963Imprint: Macmillan Children's Books
Reviews
Sizzling pace, richly drawn characters and a resoundingly moral and important story. There is intense emotion, too. The climactic scene is brilliantly handled: orchestrated to the drumbeat of an accompanying thunderstorm, it is a dizzying mix of champagne, beauty, ugliness and hatred. Necessary, yet shocking; right, yet tear-inducing; horrible, yet hopeful - that's clever writing indeedNicola Morgan, Guardian
Remains strongly readable throughoutIndependent
