You can read a full plot description here.ĭoes the story feel authentic? Yes and Ruth Park calls on all our senses with her glorious descriptions of this area in 1873. But when Abigail is drawn in, the game is quickly transformed into an extraordinary, sometimes horrifying, adventure as she finds herself transported to a place that is foreign yet strangely familiar." In Playing Beatie Bow Abigail, a fourteen year old girl who lives with her mother in the Rocks area of Sydney, finds herself transported back to 1873.īlurb: "The game is called Beatie Bow and the children play it for the thrill of scaring themselves. How will the character go back in time? how will the character return to their 'real life'? and most importantly what has happened to time itself? The other complex issue comes when the story involves a timeslip. The author has to do detailed research so that the period in history feels authentic while ensuring the story feels fresh and does read like a list of history facts piled one after another.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |