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Our Mother's House
Our Mother's House
Author: Julian Gloag
"Tense and chilling...like Rosemary's Baby and Lord of the Flies." — Seven children find themselves orphaned when their mother dies. Faced with the unknown fear of an orphanage, they decide not to report their mother's death. They bury her in the garden and build a tabernacle over her grave. To the outside world they pretend she is ill and con...  more »
ISBN: 169225
Pages: 295
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I tried. I gave this book 100 pages. I really did want to like this book, but it is impossible. The plot moves along achingly slowly, so slowly that I found my mind wandering and consequently unable to keep up with the S L O W moving plot. I read one lengthy paragraph about a minor character lighting a cigarette. That was it....just lighting a cigarette. I'm sure there's a good story in here, it just needs a good pruning. This book is excessively wordy.


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