Feeling Lost Then Look Right Here! (A Place Called Here - Cecelia Ahern)

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Product:	A Place Called Here - Cecelia Ahern
Date:	02/06/07 (149 review reads)
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Cecelia A’Hurn – A Place Called Here




This is one book I really could not wait to hit the shelves and I was waiting for its release date for quite a while. Having read ever one of Cecelia A’Hurn other books and enjoyed them thoroughly I really was dying to get my hands on this one and turn each page with the enthusiasm as I had her previous books.


In this book we are able to meet some great characters including the most important one of which is Sandy Shortt a young girl who cannot miss place a thing without a fall scale search taking place to find it. No matter how hard she tries not to loose these things and to keep everywhere orderly these things seem to get up and just vanish on their own. We meet her therapist whom she began seeing at school and plays a very important role in her life growing up, helping to try to find the answers to all the questions she has floating around in her head.


The Therapist Mr Burton or Gregory as she later calls him is somewhat taken aback with the crazy sense that Sandy is revealing to him and they form a strong companionship that continues into her later life. Sandy moves on from School and becomes a police officer with her ultimate wish to become a member of the missing persons team. Since a young girl disappeared from her area when she was 13 ending up in that black hole of missing things she longs to bring back together people with their families and so this is what she in the end does.


We are drawn into this crazy, hectic world of Sandy Shortt and the people she is trying to help by locating their loved ones with the view to bringing them back safe and sound from the place wherever it is they have been missing. She seems pretty successful in her role as a missing persons person and seems to reunite many families who have the pleasure of working with her. This all goes well until one day Sandy takes a path she has never seen before when out on her usual morning run. This path leads her deeper into a place she no longer recognises and eventually she realises it is her who is lost. But where on gods earth is she?


We are taken to a world existing in Cecelia A’Hurn’s mind and she brings us into a world of missing people and missing things with a way of life that at first seems so hard to imagine but eventually you don’t want to leave. Sandy meets many people and many things that remind her of home but will she ever be able to return as these people who reside here have never been able to leave this place called “Here”.


We meet some characters, which have only been referenced in the book previously, and we are drawn into a world that doesn’t exist except on paper but springs to live the moment you read the words. Along side Sandy’s adventure we are told about the one person, Jack Rutttle, who is trying to find her and truly believes that she is missing. After desperately trying for over a year to find his missing brother he is at a final straw with the situation. This man believes by finding Sandy she will in turn then be
able to find his missing brother.

The two sides of the story run well along side each other, as you are able to piece together the small amounts of information you are given at a time to get a larger fantastic story together. As the story unfolds before your eyes you are amazed at the way things turn out and I found it hard to put the book down at all.


There are some sad parts and some laugh out loud parts to this book and it has everything you could want for a great read. Cecelia has certainly outdone herself this time and I believe this book will be a major success for her. The characters are strong and are brought to live with such ease and familiarity that this book would be suitable for anyone with an imagination.


The book took me no longer than a week to get through and obviously I was working all day through that week but at every opportunity I was picking it up to read as much as I could. Every word of this book was brilliant and I thoroughly enjoyed every page.


Overall I would rate this book as excellent. I have read nothing that comes close to such an enjoyable read in a very long time. Everyone could read and enjoy this book as long as you do have a good imagination and if you have read Cecelia A’Hurn’s books before you will certainly love this one.

Summary: a great book