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mat_tobin's review
4.0
One of the more odder of Boston's books yet just as short as [b:Nothing Said|840002|Nothing Said|L.M. Boston|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1201533434s/840002.jpg|825555]. The story starts off, much like in Nothing Said with a child trapped within the confines of a concrete world. Whilst Libby is offered the chance to escape into the countryside, Tom, with a sense of loss over the landscape that his parents have torn him from, feels a pull towards an old house settled in the Park.
As he fishes by the gate of the house one day, he answers a calling within and enters the building. In there he encounters a series of carved, chiselled and woven faces and each of them have a story to tell. Here then is a tale of a young boy's search for something. His encounters lie deep within different faiths and beliefs and at the end he is left with more questions than he had when he first entered. Yet at the end, when he escapes, the house and its heads still call to him - hoping for his return perhaps, when he is better able to understand their secrets.
As he fishes by the gate of the house one day, he answers a calling within and enters the building. In there he encounters a series of carved, chiselled and woven faces and each of them have a story to tell. Here then is a tale of a young boy's search for something. His encounters lie deep within different faiths and beliefs and at the end he is left with more questions than he had when he first entered. Yet at the end, when he escapes, the house and its heads still call to him - hoping for his return perhaps, when he is better able to understand their secrets.
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