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A fülemüleerdő titka by Lucy Strange

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jnishi's review against another edition

4.0

This was a beautiful book. I wanted to wrap Henry in a hug and tell her that everything was going to be okay. With echoes of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”, Lucy Strange makes a lyrical and poetic commentary on the treatment of women and mental health in the 1900s and the far reach of grief. The writing is brilliant and will have you crying along with Henry as the plot progresses. Everyone was right in saying that this novel feels and reads like a classic.

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4.0

Very quick and easy read the goes down disturbingly easy. Henry's family moves to Hope House after the Great War. Her mother is in a locked upstairs room, so Henry takes baby Piglet for a walk every day while Nanny Jane keeps house and the cook tells stories of witches in the woods. The doctor comes in to check on mother once in a while, and when he does he and Nanny Jane give Henry that look. You know the look, the one she's not supposed to see. But what could it mean?

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2.0

I really wanted to like this book and it was fairly enjoyable. However, it did feel as though the author was trying to copy te elements of a children's classic without putting enough of her own style into the telling of it, and this left me feeling detached from the narrative and protagonist.