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 Tanglewreck - Jeanette Winterson
Newest Review: ... black too.'(page 23) Silver's thoughts are narrated in the first person, in italics. The rest of the narrative is third ... more  ... person.
The sinister Abel Darkwater arrives in his Rolls Royce Silver Cloud, to see Mrs Rockabye. His car is equipped with an Age-Gauge, which computes the age of houses, or calculates the date of limestone and clay.
'The Age-Gauge worked on radioactive emissions - faint but traceable echoes of time. Abel Darkwater knew that all time is always present but buried layer by layer under what people call Now.' (page 20)
Darkwater is in search of the the Timekeeper, a special watch Silver's scientist father apparently had...more |
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Tanglewreck - Jeanette Winterson: Trouble with Time (540 words)
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Tanglewreck is Jeanette Winterson's first novel for children. The eleven year old heroine, Silver, lives with her aunt Mrs Rockabye in the 500 hundred year old family home, Tanglewreck. Mrs Rockabye has been her legal guardian since the disappearance of Silver's parents in a railway accident four years previously. There are shades of Harry Potter here, as Silver has to live on soup made from nettles, dandelions and cabbage, while her aunt eats fish and chips and family sized slabs of chocolate. Even her aunt's rabbit, Bigamist, gets fresh carrots and lettuce. He is no ordinary rabbit however, but a spy, who keeps an eye on Silver for her ... Read the complete review
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