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juushikaTitle: The Doll in the Garden
Author: Mary Downing Hahn
Published: HarperCollins, 2007 (1989)
Rating: 2.5 of 5
Page Count: 130
Total Page Count: 557,180
Text Number: 2095
Read Because: spotted here, ebook borrowed from the Multnomah County Library
Review: A girl finds an antique doll buried in her new landlady's backyard and ties it to a local haunting. This is indulgently gothic, located largely in its tableaux and concept; the writing is workmanlike, and probably the sort of thing that works best at a certain age, when childhood imagination can expand the bare bones into an atmosphere. But having just read Mahy's The Haunting, I'm particularly aware that MG can do that work itself; it doesn't need to be this bare bones. But they are good bones, particularly the sensitive and compelling depiction of grief.
Author: Mary Downing Hahn
Published: HarperCollins, 2007 (1989)
Rating: 2.5 of 5
Page Count: 130
Total Page Count: 557,180
Text Number: 2095
Read Because: spotted here, ebook borrowed from the Multnomah County Library
Review: A girl finds an antique doll buried in her new landlady's backyard and ties it to a local haunting. This is indulgently gothic, located largely in its tableaux and concept; the writing is workmanlike, and probably the sort of thing that works best at a certain age, when childhood imagination can expand the bare bones into an atmosphere. But having just read Mahy's The Haunting, I'm particularly aware that MG can do that work itself; it doesn't need to be this bare bones. But they are good bones, particularly the sensitive and compelling depiction of grief.
