Medina Hill by Trilby Kent
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- Age Range: Young Adult
- Pub. Date: October 2009
- 176pp
- Sales Rank: 187,019
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: October 2009
- Publisher: Tundra
- Format: Hardcover, 176pp
- Sales Rank: 187,019
- Age Range: Young Adult
- ISBN-13: 9780887768880
- ISBN: 0887768881
Synopsis
In the grimy London of 1935, eleven-year-old Dominic Walker has lost his voice. His mother is sick and his father’s unemployed. Rescue comes in the form of his Uncle Roo, who arrives to take him and his young sister, Marlo, to Cornwall. There, in a boarding house populated by eccentric residents, Marlo, who keeps a death grip on her copy of The New Art of Cooking, and Dominic, armed with Incredible Adventures for Boys: Colonel Lawrence and the Revolt in the Desert, find a way of life unlike any they have known. Dominic’s passion for Lawrence of Arabia is tested when he finds himself embroiled in a village uprising against a band of travelers who face expulsion. In defending the vulnerable, Dominic learns what it truly means to have a voice.
Trilby Kent brilliantly handles a far-off time and place to present a story of up-to-the-minute relevance.
Biography
Trilby Kent was born in Toronto, Ontario, and grew up in cities on both sides of the Atlantic. After completing degrees at Oxford University and The London School of Economics, she worked in the rare books department at a prominent auction house before turning to writing feature articles for publication in Europe and North America. She now lives in London, England. Medina Hill is Trilby Kent’s first novel.
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Fascinating history, characters and locationby SheilaDeeth
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November 30, 2009: The sepia-toned cover of this book caught my eye. An old-fashioned English schoolboy sitting on his case; a gypsy wagon and entourage; a rider on a camel; what could they have in common?
The story is told from the point of view of young Dominic Walker, who explains on page two that he forgot how to speak during a math lesson in school. His description of the struggle to force reluctant words out of his mouth is entrancingly real, and the reader's heart aches for the child.But Dominic is no tragic hero. He's a very real, mostly ordinary lad who picks out a book to read because the cover's not brown and he can't quite get out the words to say he doesn't want one. He meets some rather extraordinary strangers, but they're really not so odd as they seem in his young eyes. And he wanders through a very real world from London to Cornwall in the years between the wars.The writing is bright and consistent, the characters fascinating, and the scenery detailed and true. I really enjoyed Dominic's tale and its gentle lessons, a reminder that not all is as good or as bad as it seems, that communication takes deeds as well as words, and that bravery can be something as simple and straightforward as doing what's right.
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