My thanks to the publisher for a review copy. There's really nothing else out there like it. I'm here for those books that test the limits of form and shape, always. It's a perfect book to share with young readers and talk about what a book can do. She lets it work and uses everything at her disposal to make it happen. She lets the text do the work, embracing the potential of what the printed word can look like and how that can add to meaning. Appelbaum writes with a almost avant-garde stylistic that I really loved. Sometimes middle grade literature can pose the biggest questions with such grace, and this is one of those titles. The people of Farstoke hold a regular festival to celebrate these near-mythical individuals, praying that one will turn up for them when they most need it. The people who can give life at the cost of their own are known as 'lifelings' and they can hear when something is about to die. Lonny Quicke is a philosophical treatise on what it takes to love and lose and live. The premise is remarkable: what would happen if you could save a life with the touch of your hand -and what if it meant that you got older each time you did it? I've had a lot of time for Kirsty Applebaum's previous work, so when Nosy Crow sent me a proof of The Life And Time of Lonny Quicke, I was fascinated to see what she did with it.
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