A review by lory_enterenchanted
The Whispering Mountain by Joan Aiken

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3.0

A wild Aiken adventure set in Wales, most memorable for the linguistic acrobatics the author performs with various characters talking her own brand of Welsh, Scots, London thieves' cant, and a made-up middle eastern florid style ... I loved the lens-wearing main character Owen and his book about everything, though he did get to be a bit too much of a superhero after a while. Arabis, too, if also too good to be true, with her remedies for everything, was lovely.