The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon - Stephen King

When on holiday in Sweden I offer only one piece of advice - do not venture off the path. In the UK we have many clumps of trees that we have the tenacity to call forests. Sweden's forests mock our forests and call them twigs! In Sweden the tree line is incredibly dense and you lose sight of the path only metres in. This is what happened to my little sister and I when we decided to hide from our parents. We waited 10 minutes for them to walk past so that we could jump out - but they never came past. Being well behaved brats we retraced our steps and waited by the car. Some 30 minutes later my parents turned up out of breath and panicking. They had run all around ...  Read the complete review

Right. As soon as my daughter reaches her third birthday, I’m going to read this book to her. I’ll read it to her at bedtime so she’ll have time alone to reflect on the seriousness of the story. Why? Because I’m a parent who has put herself in the place of the little girl in this story and who trembles at the thought of anything like that happening to her own child or any other. Maybe they ought to make a cardboard book of it with lots of bright pictures so that babies can start subconsciously absorbing the moral of this story – namely, not to wander off the path and away from their mummy when walking through huge, scary, wild woods of the ...  Read the complete review

Stephen King. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. First published in 1999. Hodder Paperbacks, pp. 226. # ISBN-10: 0340952385 # ISBN-13: 978-0340952382 Amazon price: £4.98 The book: The plot is really simple. Trisha McFarland is a 9 year-old girl whose parents are divorced. Hurt by the continuous fights of her mother with her brother, Trisha leaves the track and gets lost in the woods. The only things that keep her going are her walkman and her love for Red Sox baseball games, especially for the player Tom Gordon. Will she manage to survive? My reality: This is a thin book printed on low quality paper, and the full price ...  Read the complete review

All of a sudden, the mother and brother walking through the path in the woods stop fighting. The brother looks back, and doesn't see his nine-year-old sister Trisha, who was supposed to be following behind. Where is she? Where could she have gone? This is Opening Day of The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, the latest Stephen King novel that I have devoured, it is about faith, and perseverence, and baseball. Little Trisha McFarland, purely by accident, gets lost in the Maine woods after separating herself from her family. What begins as a family outing one early Saturday morning becomes a long, dark journey for this little girl, one whose outcome is always ...  Read the complete review

Trisha has had enough. On yet another rambling holiday with her mum and brother all she can hear is them bickering about her dad. Walking along a nature trail Trisha starts to drop further and further behind and when she stops for a toilet break in the woods manages to lose them altogether. “Good”, she thinks. Unfortunately, as she tries to find her way back to the trail she ends up disorientated and deep in the woods. With no sign of the trail and only a stream to guide her Trisha starts to see horrific visions in the deep, disquiet of the woods. Are they part of her imagination or is the creature she imagines stalking her real? Good job she has her companion ...  Read the complete review