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Hazel
by Julie Hearn
Product Group: Book
Publisher: OUP Oxford (2007-09-06)
ISBN: 0192792148
EAN: 9780192792143
Paperback: 368 pages
SKU: B344-1338
Condition: Like New
Comments: UNREAD but may have minor imperfections such as a crease or mark. In stock - quick dispatch, from an efficient and professional leading British bookselling firm.
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Customer Reviews
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Well written
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-06-25
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
I can't understand the less than glowing reviews for this book. I've just finished it and really loved it. I've just read two rather badly-written teen novels and what a contrast Hazel is! Julie Hearn always writes brilliantly. The prose flows effortlessly and is a pleasure to read. The beginning of the book is also very funny and really made me laugh. Hazel is indeed a spoiled child, but she's very much the product of her time. She has been pampered and protected and not even allowed to read the paper in case she hears something unsuitable for the delicate female sensibilities. Her teachers are wonderful minor characters, showing how this kind of upbringing works. Hazel's tale is about growing up and discovering how the world really is. I thought it was beautifully done and enjoyed every word of it.
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Hazel: Gone Sour.
Rating  (3)
Date: 2008-05-10
1 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
A sequel to Julie Hearn's much-loved story Ivy. The story revolves around Ivy's daughter, Hazel.
Sadly, I really disliked Hazel. While the readers of Ivy sympathised with Ivy, a downtrodden but determined young girl, Hazel seems to be determined, but is instead a bad-tempered, spoilt little girl. Her refusal to tell lies may be considered a redeeming (if annoying) feature, but all the way through I wanted to give Hazel a slap. The story has an interesting beginning, but it felt unexplained and spent far too long focusing on Hazel's equally bratty friends. Her bizarre punishment to be sent to the Caribbean (since it seems completely irrelevant to the crime) allows the slightly more darker side of the story to unfurl, but ultimately it has a dissapointingly anti-climatic ending.
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Teen Suffragette
Rating (3)
Date: 2007-12-06
1 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
This is Ivy: the Next Generation. Ivy now has a daughter called Hazel (apparently her father thought it would be a good thing to continue the tradition of tree names in the family). Maurice Mull-Dare is a gambler and he loses quite a lot of money on the King's horse as a Suffragette throws herself under the horses hooves. This throws him into an unspecified crisis that has him hospitalised. Hazel is in school, it's a school for young ladies and this is 1913, just before the war and England is still a very Victorian country.
Hazel thinks that the Sufragettes have a point and is egged on by one of her classmates and gets herself into trouble. This trouble lands her in the Carribean, in the hands of her grandparents. As she spends the summer spending her mornings learning about being a lady and her afternoons exploring the neighbourhood. She finds out some things about her family and about slavery, things that aren't very comfortable, and she grows with the knowledge.
I found it an interesting read, on some levels a compelling read but on other levels I felt that the message overwhelmed the story, enough that while it's not a poor 3* I couldn't justify giving it 4*. Nearly there though, if it was a first novel I would have forgiven it some of it's flaws but it isn't.
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