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The Year of the Ladybird
The Year of the Ladybird | Graham Joyce
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A ghost story with a difference from the WORLD FANTASY and multiple BRITISH FANTASY AWARD-winning author of SOME KIND OF FAIRY TALEIt is the summer of 1976, the hottest since records began and a young man leaves behind his student days and learns how to grow up. A first job in a holiday camp beckons. But with political and racial tensions simmering under the cloudless summer skies there is not much fun to be had.And soon there is a terrible price to be paid for his new found freedom and independence. A price that will come back to haunt him, even in the bright sunlight of summer.As with SOME KIND OF FAIRY TALE, Graham Joyce has crafted a deceptively simple tale of great power. With beautiful prose, wonderful characters and a perfect evocation of time and place this is a novel that transcends the boundaries between the everyday and the supernatural while celebrating the power of both.
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3.5 ⭐

60's? resort, British, love?, sex, Nazism (little), violence and threat of, coming of age

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I forgot to mention this one. This is one of the top 3 movies I've seen in a while (Coco and Three Billboards in Ebbings, Missouri being the other 2). Excellent, excellent cast. Everyone should check it out!