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|title= December
|author= Elizabeth H Winthrop
|reviewer= Ekaterina Rodyunina
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= 11 year old Isabelle Carter does not talk. Not that she is mute. She just stopped talking a few months ago, less and less initially, and then suddenly would not talk anymore. At all. Not a book for everyone, it doesn't have quick thrills and it doesn't seem to want to bedazzle and conquer: some readers might find it slightly too detailed and slow, but worth a try anyway. I am sure most parents will find it educating and enjoyable - and intensely distrubing disturbing too, perhaps.
|rating=3
|buy= Maybe
|borrow= Maybe
|pages=384
|publisher= Sceptre
|date= December 2008
|isbn=978-0340961438
|amazonukcover=<amazonuk>0340961430</amazonuk> |amazonusaznuk=0340961430|aznus=<amazonus>0307268306</amazonus>
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The book is painfully slow and precise. Elizabeth Winthrop spends pages describing how Wilson declutters the garage and how Ruth and Belle arrange the grocery items in the cart. It paints a grim picture, to be honest, but also a hopeful one, and when the silence is broken eventually, the sense of relief is striking.
Not a book for everyone, it does not have quick thrills and it does not seem to want to bedazzle and conquer: some readers might find it slightly too detailed and slow, but worth a try anyway. I am sure most parents will find it educating and enjoyable - and intensely distrubing disturbing too, perhaps.
For more family dramas, why not check out [[From Where I Stand by Tabitha Suzuma]].
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