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Seagull Bay
Another winner from this ever-popular author - When Dawn Stephens parents are killed in an accident, she is transplanted from her home in Canada to the small seaside town of Sturvendor in Somerset, to live with her uncle and aunt. She makes friends with her cousin Serena, and soon settles in well at the local school, but Dawn still feels very alone in this strange new world.
224 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2010
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Janet Tanner
42 books7 followersJanet Tanner is a prolific and well-loved author and has twice been shortlisted for RNA awards. Many of her novels are multi-generational sagas, and some – in particular the Hillsbridge Quartet – are based on her own working class background in a Somerset mining community. More recently, she has been writing historical and well-received gothic novels for Severn House – a reviewer for Booklist, a trade publication in the United States, calls her “a master of the Gothic genre.” Besides publication in the UK and US, Janet’s books have also been translated into dozens of languages and published all over the world. Before turning to novels she was a prolific writer of short stories and serials, with hundreds of stories appearing in various magazines and publications worldwide. Janet Tanner lives in Radstock, Somerset.
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March 5, 2012
all i could say is that i cried more when i had finished it. i wanted it to last forever. anyway hearing this rich tale though the eyes and ears of the eponymous heroine dawn stephans made the reader (well, me) feel part of her, her adventure and her experience of love. throuout this novel i felt what she felt and every emotional stab she felt was echoed in me. sandy,i feel wasn't too cliche-ed however still purpose build for the reader to fantasise with him a little.
unlike most readers or reviewers who believe dawn has no wit and has lost her mind following sandy -who we later learn is not like your average superhero lover-,i find that i followed dawn exactly in her shoes and loved sandy the way she did. only a book that well-written would have that powerful effect on me, i even had doubts of returing it to the libery from whence it came. it proberbly had that effect on me by my own personal experience and if more then anything it was proberbly empathy.
different readers= differnt approaches i would think. it would benifit many with it's also satisfying adventure as we see dawn approach a series of unfortunate,passionate, happy and greivous events in one lifetime and what greatly satisfied me was the invisable conpanionship i had with her,seeing on the pages her becomming more and more into an acomplished young woman and almost feeling like some sort of guardian angel. then theres a healthy dose of secrets and shocks involved.
dawn is a canadian born girl who then has to be put through a traumatic experience of greif with the death of both her parents. there is then no other easier lane for her other then to move from canada into the home of her aunt fran with her husband and daugter serena in a town called sturvendor in somerset. friendship blossoms between dawn and serena as well as homesickness and lack of parental love manifestering itself inside her which then leads to a lonley escape from her new life into the discovery of a secret and all-emotional and important location: a secluded bay overlooking the raging sea which she named seagull bay. important as it is the place in which two people burst into each others life,that is dawn and sandy (who's real name is andrew phillip charles collins).
many more events kick off from there which i prefer to keep to potential readers as a discovery for themselves but overall, it's my new favorite read and i have a feeling i might read it more then once in my life. as a 16-year-old now fallen in love,i wouldn't say it's a bad read (i dodged a few cliches but there arn't that many and lets face it, how many books don't have at least one glimmer of a cliche?)
love it love it love it!
unlike most readers or reviewers who believe dawn has no wit and has lost her mind following sandy -who we later learn is not like your average superhero lover-,i find that i followed dawn exactly in her shoes and loved sandy the way she did. only a book that well-written would have that powerful effect on me, i even had doubts of returing it to the libery from whence it came. it proberbly had that effect on me by my own personal experience and if more then anything it was proberbly empathy.
different readers= differnt approaches i would think. it would benifit many with it's also satisfying adventure as we see dawn approach a series of unfortunate,passionate, happy and greivous events in one lifetime and what greatly satisfied me was the invisable conpanionship i had with her,seeing on the pages her becomming more and more into an acomplished young woman and almost feeling like some sort of guardian angel. then theres a healthy dose of secrets and shocks involved.
dawn is a canadian born girl who then has to be put through a traumatic experience of greif with the death of both her parents. there is then no other easier lane for her other then to move from canada into the home of her aunt fran with her husband and daugter serena in a town called sturvendor in somerset. friendship blossoms between dawn and serena as well as homesickness and lack of parental love manifestering itself inside her which then leads to a lonley escape from her new life into the discovery of a secret and all-emotional and important location: a secluded bay overlooking the raging sea which she named seagull bay. important as it is the place in which two people burst into each others life,that is dawn and sandy (who's real name is andrew phillip charles collins).
many more events kick off from there which i prefer to keep to potential readers as a discovery for themselves but overall, it's my new favorite read and i have a feeling i might read it more then once in my life. as a 16-year-old now fallen in love,i wouldn't say it's a bad read (i dodged a few cliches but there arn't that many and lets face it, how many books don't have at least one glimmer of a cliche?)
love it love it love it!
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