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A review by themermaddie
The Ghost's Child by Sonya Hartnett
4.0
Matilda Adelaide Victoria, or “Maddy”, is an old woman living alone, when she is one day greeted by the sight of a little boy waiting on her front porch when she gets home. He proceeds to be nosy and impatient as all little boys are, and asks her about her life, and why she lives alone surrounded by foreign objects. Thus, Maddy begins her tale, starting from when she was a little girl.
With a nearly always absent father and a mother who wanted a doll for a daughter, Maddy spends her childhood in solitude. The day she finishes school, her father asks her what she thinks is the most beautiful thing in the world. After some deliberation, she answers, “I think that sea-eagles are the world’s most beautiful things.”
Her parents laugh at her, and Maddy’s father decides she needs a bit more education, and for the next two years, he and Maddy travel the globe, in search for the world’s most beautiful things. That’s what the bulk of this book is about, really; the discovery of new experiences, and new beauty.
Maddy meets a boy, once she’s come back from globe-trotting, who sits by the water and watches the horizon. He goes by the name of Feather. She asks him the same question her father asked two years ago, and his answer? “Sea-eagles.”
Maddy falls in love.
Sadly, while their romance is deep beyond words and Maddy does everything she can to love him as they both are, their happiness is short-lived. Feather spends more and more time at the beach away from home, and he begins to remind Maddy of the beautiful creatures she’d seen chained down in zoos.
He leaves her.
She begins a search for him, for his answers to her questions. Maddy is a young woman now, and a sailor, and an adventurer. And with help from the animals of the sea (feat. Zephyrus the West Wind), she finds Feather, who tells her…
Well, I’m not going to tell you. Really, I swear.
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With a nearly always absent father and a mother who wanted a doll for a daughter, Maddy spends her childhood in solitude. The day she finishes school, her father asks her what she thinks is the most beautiful thing in the world. After some deliberation, she answers, “I think that sea-eagles are the world’s most beautiful things.”
Her parents laugh at her, and Maddy’s father decides she needs a bit more education, and for the next two years, he and Maddy travel the globe, in search for the world’s most beautiful things. That’s what the bulk of this book is about, really; the discovery of new experiences, and new beauty.
Maddy meets a boy, once she’s come back from globe-trotting, who sits by the water and watches the horizon. He goes by the name of Feather. She asks him the same question her father asked two years ago, and his answer? “Sea-eagles.”
Maddy falls in love.
Sadly, while their romance is deep beyond words and Maddy does everything she can to love him as they both are, their happiness is short-lived. Feather spends more and more time at the beach away from home, and he begins to remind Maddy of the beautiful creatures she’d seen chained down in zoos.
He leaves her.
She begins a search for him, for his answers to her questions. Maddy is a young woman now, and a sailor, and an adventurer. And with help from the animals of the sea (feat. Zephyrus the West Wind), she finds Feather, who tells her…
Well, I’m not going to tell you. Really, I swear.
Read the rest of the review here