golden moors or the strange story of Harvey Squire
Denis Bretin
Syros - Large - 09/09
217 pages - from 12 years - 14.9 EUR
Squire Harvey is a young 10 year old boy trying to survive in Scotland in 1862. Unfortunately it is not helped by his father. This is the village barber Drinsdale, notorious alcoholic since the departure of his wife. This horrible man recently sent his son to the commands it can not provide. And this Christmas Eve Harvey will have to shave his first client, a stiff. The notable area died suddenly after having squandered all his money in buying old books. The young barber is a brave boy, who did leave open or by his journey through the mysterious Scottish moor at about Hadrian's Wall, or by the cold reception staff Fearnwood mansion. And even finds himself alone in front its first customer in the chapel, he will remain calm. Only its actions will the inexperienced slewing a scar hidden beneath a thick beard of several months. Fortunately, a handkerchief and talc will quickly repair the damage.
Enter into a story with many facets: in turn novel puzzles, fantasy and historical fiction novel that offers us Bretin Denis. This hands-on everything from literature, who is also secretary general of the Paris Autumn Festival which brings together all forms of artistic expression. He therefore used the crossover hit, and he proves it with his first novel for teenagers. Helped by the introduction of secondary characters especially tasty, and well built. As Boniface Swifft, bookseller at the sign of broken pot in Edinburgh, the man who walks past smoky with his parrot named Mrs. color. The atmosphere is as scary an important key to this novel that makes us shudder at the recital of Scottish legends that revolve around Hadrian's Wall.
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