![]() ![]() The interplay between the world Zoë discovers in the night juxtaposes marvelously against the deep sadness she feels in her ordinary life. ![]() Having discovered that Christopher had murdered their mother Simon has hunted his young-looking sibling through the centuries. Born in the seventeenth century, Simon was turned into a vampire by his older brother Christopher – himself trapped forever as a young child, and still carrying a child’s cruel nature. Then she meets a teenage boy, Simon, and an odd bond forms but Simon is no ordinary boy. Her mother is slowly slipping away due to cancer, her father seems distant, wrapped in his own grief, and her best friend, Lorraine, is being forced to move away with her father and step-mother. Zoë is a young teen for whom life has become unbearably hard. What I didn’t expect was a book with deeply drawn characters that proved enthralling and poetically poignant. I picked this up in a publisher’s clearance store, very cheap, and expected that it would be a swift read – being a slim volume. ![]()
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