renthwa.blogg.se - The Tide Knot by Helen Dunmore

Ever since, Sapphy has felt withdrawn and restless she can't adjust to her new home and new life, and can't suppress the memories of her father and his mysterious disappearance. It's got me, like a cat with a bird in its claws." Sapphy, Conor and their mum have moved away from the cottage by the cove - away from the memories of their father, who disappeared two years ago - to the nearby town of St Pirans. I'm jolting, juddering, struggling in its grip, but I can't break away. The current is so strong that it crushes me. The world of Ingo is once again brought to life in Helen Dunmore's newest spellbinding sequel "The Tide Knot." "There's a current racing ahead, the colour of the darkest blue velvet.

LoveReading4Kids Find This Book In Suitable For: To read the series in order start with Ingo then The Tide Knot (which won the Nestle Children’s Book Prize Silver Medal) then The Deep and end with The Crossing of Ingo. It has also just been shortlisted for the Nestle Children’s Book Award in the 9-11 age range. Although this is a sequel to Ingo, The Tide Knot stands alone in its own right as a book that children and adults can’t fail to enjoy. Her storytelling is supreme and she evokes a wondrous feeling of time and place. Her writing is lyrical and light and the characters are vividly drawn and you can almost feel the tension as the story progresses. Helen Dunmore has deftly spliced together two very different worlds – the underwater world of Ingo and the world of the land people - in such a way that you are drawn into each so compellingly.

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