After the Death of Alice Bennett

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After the Death of Alice Bennett

Product Group: Book
Publisher: Oxford University Press (2007-01-04)
ISBN: 0192754726
EAN: 9780192754721
Paperback: 203 pages

Customer Reviews

Warning, this book will make you cry!
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(4)
Date: 2007-07-04
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful

I thought that this book was very well written and felt different to some of the other children's fiction I have read. The subject is extremely moving and the book will stay with you long after you've read it. I cried several times whilst reading the book, especially when reading Becky's letters to her dead mother. I would guess that the author has lost a parent as the children's feelings about the death of their much loved mother are described so accurately. I lost my mother when I was a child and so could really sympathise with Sam and Becky and felt the author 'hit the nail on the head' as to how it does feel to loose your mother.
I liked the fact that the book doesn't have a sickly sweet or unrealistic ending. Sam hasn't been talking to his mother, Alice Bennett really is dead and she isn't coming back, no matter how much her family miss her. The book does show however that life goes on and the children will be ok because they still have a loving family - their father and uncle and aunt in particular.
I would recommend this book to teenagers and adults, but be warned, it will make you cry!

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