NZ Writer Leonie Agnew The Impossible Boy Puffin 2016 $19.99pb 203pp ISBN 978 0 1433 0906 2Themes: Children in wartime/ Imaginary friends/ Survival/
War zones
Ben is only six years old, has already survived
a train crash, and now is living in an orphanage in the middle of a war zone
and has, of necessity had to create an imaginary friend who he calls Vincent
just to see him through. It is Vincent who tells the story… Clear precise
writing helps the reader enter in to a narrative that is as unusual as it is
addictive – a story you really cannot help thinking about. Although it is basically
upsetting, traces of the well-known ‘Agnew humour’ do break through and at times
I almost expected Conrad from Conrad
Cooper’s Last Stand to come through the orphanage door.
The book was officially launched yesterday afternoon
at St. Heliers Community Library Auckland - I wish I could have been there!
Year 6/ Age 10 up
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| Leonie reads from her new book at the launch yesterday afternoon. Image acknowledgements to Clare Scott |
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