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BfK No. 121 - March 2000

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This issue's cover is from Colin McNaughton's Hmm... Colin McNaughton discusses the thinking behind his book in Windows into Illustration. Thanks to Collins Children's Books for their help in producing this cover.

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Paulina

Lesley Howarth
(Walker Books Ltd)
224pp, 978-0744559484, RRP £9.99, Hardcover
10-14 Middle/Secondary
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A summer house-swap takes Rebecca and her family from their bungalow in Cornwall to a luxury house in Connecticut with its swimming pool and Buick. But while the sweet and caring George and Annie take off for Cornwall they leave behind Paulina; actually two Paulinas. One is the neighbour's daughter, 'by day the homecoming queen, by night the Bride of Frankenstein', who uses the house and its pool for partying; the other is the ghostly Paulina, 'poorlina', re-living her tragic family life and death of sixteen years ago. Not a dream-holiday but a studied, nightmarish one. This book shows that Howarth can write a good, but unexceptional modern horror story, complete with American setting. Perhaps it will attract new readers to her other, more exceptional and gripping stories.

Reviewer: 
Adrian Jackson
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