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Rust & Stardust by T. Greenwood

4.0

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A fictional account of the true abduction of 11 year-old Sally Horner in 1948 and the two year ordeal at the hands of her captor. This is the story that inspired Nabokov’s ‘Lolita’. Greenwood is careful not to get involved in the sordid details or graphic sexual content, which leaves us to focus on how horrifyingly easy it was then to steal a child and how that whole experience must have stayed with her for all her life. Worse than that is the realization that these things are still happening in our world now. A fascinating and important read!