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Mine
Voices...
Shelley hears voices from the Mine...
They are ancient, troubled and forgotten...
She can’t help but listen as they use her to make sense of their own past, but can she use their wisdom and experience to make sense of her own present and future?
Only Time will tell.
Or does the Mine hold another, deeper, darker secret..?
As Shelley tries to unravel the mystery of her own past, will she ever truly understand where she belongs?
‘It's not mine. Nothing is!’
Shelley's 17th winter will change her life forever…
Award-winning author Caroline Pitcher
expertly explores the changing bonds of relationship between mothers and
daughters in this intriguing, centuries- spanning novel.
'An unusual and moving story of a girl unwillingly tuned into voices from the past... remarkable',
The Times Top Three Teen Books
On my ‘I Wish I’d Written’ list,
Berlie Doherty
‘Vivid, beautifully written, couldn’t put it down’,
Nicola Ho (Writing in Education)
Shelley hears voices from the Mine...
They are ancient, troubled and forgotten...
She can’t help but listen as they use her to make sense of their own past, but can she use their wisdom and experience to make sense of her own present and future?
Only Time will tell.
Or does the Mine hold another, deeper, darker secret..?
As Shelley tries to unravel the mystery of her own past, will she ever truly understand where she belongs?
‘It's not mine. Nothing is!’
Shelley's 17th winter will change her life forever…
Award-winning author Caroline Pitcher
expertly explores the changing bonds of relationship between mothers and
daughters in this intriguing, centuries- spanning novel.
'An unusual and moving story of a girl unwillingly tuned into voices from the past... remarkable',
The Times Top Three Teen Books
On my ‘I Wish I’d Written’ list,
Berlie Doherty
‘Vivid, beautifully written, couldn’t put it down’,
Nicola Ho (Writing in Education)
119 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 11, 1997
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April 17, 2014
This book has been extensively reworked and re-issued for 2014 and it shows.
The novel is actually 'three for the price of one'. There is a modern strand that treats the teenage to adult transition period with great insight, plus two further strands telling the story of the land and of the mine through the troubled voices and visions of their separate historical periods.
The story launches the reader straight in to what matters. Shelley is different. Very different. She hears voices trapped in the past by their circumstances, and without proper closure, until someone listens to and understands their stories. That someone is Shelley, a seventeen year old girl whose own past lacks determination. Thinking herself certain of her parents and all those around her, she is led unwillingly by the voices to a life-changing discovery of her own. Listening to the voices trapped deep in the Derbyshire stone of the nearby lead mine, Shelley uses their wisdom and experience to help determine and accept who she is and what the future holds for her.
The novel is actually 'three for the price of one'. There is a modern strand that treats the teenage to adult transition period with great insight, plus two further strands telling the story of the land and of the mine through the troubled voices and visions of their separate historical periods.
The story launches the reader straight in to what matters. Shelley is different. Very different. She hears voices trapped in the past by their circumstances, and without proper closure, until someone listens to and understands their stories. That someone is Shelley, a seventeen year old girl whose own past lacks determination. Thinking herself certain of her parents and all those around her, she is led unwillingly by the voices to a life-changing discovery of her own. Listening to the voices trapped deep in the Derbyshire stone of the nearby lead mine, Shelley uses their wisdom and experience to help determine and accept who she is and what the future holds for her.
May 13, 2022
With poetical writing, we take on a journey of seventeen year old Shelley who hears voices from the past. May seem fantastical and a thriller at first glance but ravals the relationship between divorce, parental affirmation and misunderstandings. One way or another we understand the importance of communication, may it be between ghosts of past or your mother. I enjoyed it for what it was.
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