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Original Title: | Don't Let Me Go |
ISBN: | 055277667X (ISBN13: 9780552776677) |
Edition Language: | English |
Catherine Ryan Hyde
Paperback | Pages: 422 pages Rating: 4.16 | 14680 Users | 1415 Reviews
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Sometimes a child knows better...Grace
Ten-year-old Grace knows that her mum loves her, but her mum loves drugs too. And there's only so long Grace can fend off the 'woman from the county' who is threatening to put her into care. Her only hope is...
Billy
Grown-man Billy Shine hasn't been out of his apartment for years. People scare him, and the outside world scares him even more. Day in, day out, he lives a perfectly orchestrated silent life within his four walls. Until now. . .
The Plan
Grace bursts into Billy's life with a loud voice and a brave plan to get her mum clean. And it won't be easy, because they will have to confiscate the one thing her mum holds most dear . . . they will have to kidnap Grace.
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Title | : | Don't Let Me Go |
Author | : | Catherine Ryan Hyde |
Book Format | : | Paperback |
Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 422 pages |
Published | : | September 29th 2011 by Black Swan Books Ltd (first published 2011) |
Categories | : | Fiction. Contemporary |
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Catherine Ryan Hyde has this unique gift in which she takes marginalized characters and forces us to see them, to hear them, and best of all, to care for them. This gift Ms. Hyde possesses is no fluke, and no sleight of hand. Without fail, every single one of her magnificent stories contains magic of the sort that leaves you breathless by the last page. You might feel that you've been emotionally worked over, but you will feel a better person for having been there. "Don't Let Me Go" is noWhile Grace's friendship with an adult man kind of weirded me out, I still really enjoyed reading this compelling and adventurous novel.
I enjoyed this story weaving together the lives of characters who had emotional problems keeping them from full lives and yet somehow pulling together with each other. The addict is in need of sobriety which her child longs for. But for me the real issue is what I've heard called "emotional sobriety" and nearly all the characters are in need of that. There is one character who drifts into the story who is very much at one with himself and he seems to be the one to turn the tide with really
Oh my goodness! This book could make a fantastic movie! Grace is 9 years old and her mother is a drug addict. Every day that she can't go to school because her mom can't get her there, she sits on the steps outside so that someone will notice her and help her. In her apartment complex in a dangerous neighborhood, no one knows each other and they avoid one another until several neighbors decide to help Grace. Through her friendliness, they become friends with her and one another. At first, I
A lovely feel good story, where many difficult and serious issues are confronted and overcome, and where everybody gets her or his happy ending.Beautiful friendship between a loud and noisy girl with an addict mother and her agoraphobic neighbor who does for her what he didnt do for 12 years: leave his apartment.While it is probably not often the case that a neighborhood comes together to save a child and succeeds against such overwhelming odds, it did not feel to me like the picture painted was
Grace is a very young girl who has to rely on herself for most things because her mother is an ongoing drug addict. When they move into the basement of a small, not so nice apartment building, the other tenants start to realize that she is going unsupervised and become concerned. As they each try to get to the bottom of her story, Grace starts to grow on and eventually steal their hearts. They themselves each have their own life predicaments and scarred pasts to deal with, but in the long run
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