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The Switch
While on an exchange visit to Paris, a young teenager becomes an unexpected witness to a drugs raid. English exchange student Lily holds the key to a serious crime incident at the local Bar Tabac. Making her escape, she heads for the banks of the Seine. But now she’s not sure why and from whom she is running...
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First published July 23, 2011
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Catherine Condie
3 books4 followersBorn in Cambridge, UK, Catherine Condie trained as a business linguist. Her first job was in corporate communications and public relations, where she progressed as an in-house writer and magazine editor in the science community. She is also a singer/songwriter and guitarist with a catalogue of ballads and folk-pop, which she first performed in the Club Tent at the Cambridge Folk Festival at the age of 19. Catherine has been writing and publishing her children's fiction books since 2009.
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August 30, 2011
From the first, The Switch has exciting momentum, evoking the Paris that Lily, a teenage exchange student from England, experiences. The infrequent switches to the French language are explained well in dialogue while the setting and characters emit the flavor of France.
That’s in fast flow because Lily is caught up in a drug bust that involves the brother of her exchange friend, Pascale. Lily’s tourist camera catches some of the events, and while she suspects the boy’s step-father, a policeman. But an ex-policeman is implicated and he follows Lily to the Eiffel Tower after a second confrontation.
Later, Lily’s mother says that she thought a policeman’s family might be a safe one for her exchange. While adults in this book calm Lily, her witnessing of the boys’ injuries keep this book at breakneck pace. Yet while Lily grasps each development, the Parisian scenes and her emotions are told in poignant detail.
Switch is a stunning book. I’d expect that teens would be even more compelled to read it.
That’s in fast flow because Lily is caught up in a drug bust that involves the brother of her exchange friend, Pascale. Lily’s tourist camera catches some of the events, and while she suspects the boy’s step-father, a policeman. But an ex-policeman is implicated and he follows Lily to the Eiffel Tower after a second confrontation.
Later, Lily’s mother says that she thought a policeman’s family might be a safe one for her exchange. While adults in this book calm Lily, her witnessing of the boys’ injuries keep this book at breakneck pace. Yet while Lily grasps each development, the Parisian scenes and her emotions are told in poignant detail.
Switch is a stunning book. I’d expect that teens would be even more compelled to read it.
June 27, 2012
I was hoping this was the sequel to Whirl of the Wheel, which I enjoyed. Instead, I got a story that wasn't nearly as well-written and very difficult to follow. The common theme was a total lack of resolution. Now I have two story lines that I wish I knew the end of. Awesome.
July 27, 2011
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