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Title: compelling story
Review: I had read Geraldine McCaughrean's "The White Darkness" and loved her writing style, so thought I would try another of her books. I can recommend this to all readers aged 12 (or there abouts) and up. (And up and up ... I am 45!)The characters are fun and interesting, especially the fascinating MCC Berkshire; and one feels a certain empathy for the adolescent Ailsa, trapped in a boring life with her widowed Mother, helping out at the family shop.Ailsa meets the strange Mr Berkshire whilst doing work experience at her local library. He is in need of employment and a place to stay. Her mother is in need of someone to help in the shop. And it appears that MCC, though unorthodox in his methods, is able to sell almost anything.I found the book very easy to read, and the "stories within the story" compelling.A great book with a very neat little twist at the end.
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