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    The Wish House

    Written by Celia Rees

    Narrated by Christopher Cazenove

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    About this audiobook

    Richard has hung out at the abandoned house in the woods during his summer vacation for as long as he can remember. But this year, he discovers that a family has moved in. The father, J. A. Dalton, is an internationally renowned artist who insists on painting Richard's portrait, while Dalton's wife draws the boy into her circle as though he were one of the family's bohemian adult friends.

    But it is their beautiful daughter, Clio, with whom Richard becomes obsessed. Soon he finds ways to spend days-and nights-with Clio, all the while struggling to understand and fit in with her eccentric clan. How can he know that some mysteries are best left unsolved-and that the passions of a single summer will change his life forever?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateMar 6, 2007
    ISBN9780739346969
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    • 3/5
      I found this book highly captivating. It grabbed me and wouldn't let me go. I know I'll be thinking about the themes and emotions it brought to the surface for a long time. It's harsh, slightly tragic, real, scary, beautiful and somewhat erotic all at once. It doesn't seem like a children's book or even a young adult book to me at all though. I was rather surprised by this, given its' publisher imprint and the other books this author has written in the past. It's definitely more a book about young adults but for adults, than a book about young adults for young adults. I think under 18s might be disturbed by some of the imagery and emotions as well as the themes here, though obviously this depends on the individual reader. Some parts of this book don't sit right for me - the excerpts from sketch books/ painting and sculpture descriptions break up the continuity. These also left me confused as to whether the book was trying to be a biography. It's stuck between pretend biography and regular fiction - neither fish nor fowl, as it were.